The journey from Siliguri was like driving into the sky – Darjeeling’s about 2150m above sea level. Ben Nevis is about 1344m.

We also saw someone carrying a full size sofa like this up a huge hill.

Darjeeling seems so relaxed after all the cities we’ve been to, eveyone just sits around chatting and nobody hassles you except to ask if you’re lost.

Sunset over the Himalayas.

A huge Tibetan breakfast. That’s tea made with salt and butter, mmmm, with deep fried tibetan bread. It was nice but so buttery, Matt was almost sick afterwards.

That’s a leopard in the zoo.

Jenny – a lazy moon bear.

Clouds come down really fast so suddenly you can’t see anything.

Sunrise, sort of. We got up at 3.30 am to get a jeep to this special viewpoint (Tiger Hill) but this was the only shot through the clouds.

We weren’t the only ones, and there were lots of local ladies selling sweet coffee. It was freezing (well probably about 15C).

Scrolls in Yiga-Choling Gompa Buddhist monastery in Ghoom.

The tea shop before Jenny bought it all.

A nice Nepalese man who showed us round the gardens.