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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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Darjeeling Tea -ing: Just like her father

By on October 5, 2011 in darjeeling tea, darjeeling tea stories

Like father, like daughter! Yes, thats true, my 8 year old daughter is so used to seeing me sniffing, slurping and spitting tea – now tasting of Darjeeling Tea has to be done collectively with her most of the time. When ever I take her out to a particular Darjeeling Tea garden she sees me [...]

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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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The cow that improved Jethi’s life

By on September 12, 2011 in darjeeling tea, darjeeling tea plantation, darjeeling tea stories

In my previous post, I had mentioned about a tea book which dealt with Darjeeling Tea and Makaibari – a gift from Mr. Rajah Banerjee. In that very tea book entitled as “The wonder of Darjeeling“, there are numerous tales relating to the historical upliftment of Makaibari Tea Estates, but one story which touched my [...]

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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.