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Chautaare, mostly in Darjeeling Tea garden areas

By on February 29, 2012 in darjeeling tea, darjeeling tea offers, darjeeling tea plantation, darjeeling tea stories, first flush darjeeling

You must be wondering what a “Chautaare” is – its a local Nepalese word, a Nepalese culture where a small resting place is built on a road in memory of the loved ones who are dead. Such miniature chautaare constructions are mostly visible specially when you are in a particular Darjeeling tea garden. The visual [...]

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Organic Darjeeling Tea Estate for sure

By on February 20, 2012 in darjeeling tea, darjeeling tea plantation

If I were that thing, that thing so connected to nature, that thing who survived on all things natural and organic, that thing which exactly knew from its own instincts and taste of what artificial and natural was – I would have known just by touching it, smelling it or just tasting it – the [...]

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Old Darjeeling Tea Photo: Manual sorting of Darjeeling Tea

By on February 19, 2012 in darjeeling tea, darjeeling tea plantation

I found this old Darjeeling Tea Estate photo on the web to which I am linking. I really don’t know which Darjeeling Tea Estate but the source just got the year it was clicked i.e. this photo belong to the year c1865. I can see of row of Nepalese women seated doing the cleaning of [...]

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More than 10 Darjeeling Tea gardens cut off due to Darjeeling landslide

By on September 29, 2011 in darjeeling tea, darjeeling tea news, darjeeling tea plantation, darjeeling tea stories

Darjeeling Landslide: The fury of nature seems to be full on, pin pointing the hills of Darjeeling and Sikkim. Firstly, the 6.8 Richter scale Sikkim earthquake with its epicenter in North Sikkim devastated Sikkim badly and the hills of Darjeeling got its tremors felt to quite a massive extent. Many died in Sikkim, specially the [...]

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Darjeeling Tea Plantation – Badamtam Tea Garden

By on September 13, 2011 in darjeeling tea, darjeeling tea plantation, darjeeling tea stories

Badamtam Tea garden is among those Darjeeling Tea gardens which produces excellent high end Darjeeling Teas – I am a fan of their First Flush Darjeeling Teas, specially, “Badamtam Tippy Clonal“. It is owned by the Goodricke Group Ltd. Goodricke owns several tea gardens in Assam as well including the Dooars which lie in the [...]

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Thunderbolt Tea: A Darjeeling Tea supplier / merchant based in Darjeeling supplying exotic range of Darjeeling Tea from Darjeeling First Flush, Second Flush Darjeeling and Autumn Flush. All organic tea order shipments from our tea shop - directly delivered straight from Darjeeling.