High Tea, India Style (Great NY Times article on Tea Tourism)

High Tea, India Style

Jehad Nga for The New York Times, Tea pickers at the Glenburn estate

By MATT GROSS

Published: October 14, 2007

THE Himalayas rose almost out of nowhere. One minute the Maruti Suzuki hatchback was cruising the humid plains of West Bengal, palm trees and clouds obscuring the hills to come; the next it was navigating a decrepit road that squiggled up through forests of cypress and bamboo. The taxi wheezed with the strain of the slopes, and the driver honked to alert unseen vehicles to our presence — one miscalculation, one near miss, could send the little car over the edge and down thousands of feet, returning us to the plains below in a matter of seconds. Read complete article here

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[Suzanna]

Thanks for this one!
-Su
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