Darjeeling part deux

We got up at the obscene hour of 4am this morning to catch a jeep ride out to Tiger Point. From here you can watch the sunrise over the Himalayas in Nepal and can even see the very tip of Mount Everest in the distance. It's hardly a unique experience however, with a couple of thousand Indian tourists snapping away with big, clumsy cameras and about 300 4x4's churning out thick black diesel smoke. We decided to hike the 12 or so kilometers back to Darjeeling, via a monastery in Ghoom. Apart from a brief uphill detour that lead to an impassable army checkpoint, we managed to successfully navigate our way back to Darjeeling (although the 5 hour walk nearly killed me).