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An innovative approach to our Darjeeling Tea parcels | Fun

By on July 15, 2012 in darjeeling tea, darjeeling tea stories

Recently my friend Sergey sent me a couple of nice photos taken from his recent outing with his family, kayaking along the river Seim. One of the photos he sent me was remarkable – the cloth which we use to wrap our Darjeeling Tea parcels specially for sending by EMS Post, gets an innovative dimension [...]

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Life ultimately goes green!

By on April 17, 2012 in darjeeling tea, darjeeling tea stories

I had taken this photo of an old lady in a nearby Darjeeling Tea garden with my previous SLP800 manual cam. Hope you like it. This lady had been working as a tea plucker for decades and lived life quite the hard way, but not a single sign of regret could be traced – I [...]

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Long and winding road

By on April 11, 2012 in darjeeling tea, darjeeling tea stories, first flush darjeeling

An unimportant Darjeeling Tea photo update you may say :) But I am sure, Darjeeling Tea lovers will love the photo as they sip on to their favorite cuppa. I had taken this photo with the help of my manual slr camera sometime back when I had gone hunting for some Darjeeling Teas in the [...]

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Wish I could buy all the Darjeeling Teas

By on March 16, 2012 in darjeeling tea, darjeeling tea stories, first flush darjeeling, Product Updates

Now its 2012 Darjeeling First Flush tea season going on and we are receiving a lot of tea samples. We lay them on a table, label it (sometimes we do blind tasting as well) and do the tea tasting. After tasting, we categorize each Darjeeling Tea as bad, mediocre or quality tea. We often skip [...]

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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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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.