Kolkata, Darjeeling & Sikkim 2005

Kolkata: temporally temples because of the Durga Puja Festival

Kolkata: streetlife

Kolkata: busy flower market because of the Durga Puja Festival

The river Hooghly, which is a distributary of the river Ganga, flows through Kolkata. On the other side the Railway Station can be seen.

The Howzath bridge over the Hooghly River is a famous symbol of Kolkata

The river Hooghly, which is a distributary of the river Ganga, flows through Kolkata

Kolkata: bathing people in the river Hooghly

Kolkata: people at the bank of the river Hooghly

Kolkata: bathing people in the river Hooghly

Kolkata: statues near the bank of the river Hooghly

Kolkata: people at the bank of the river Hooghly

The river Hooghly, which is a distributary of the river Ganga, flows through Kolkata

Kolkata: bathing people in the river Hooghly

Kolkata: the Kumartuli quarter was once a well-to-do neighbourhood

Kolkata: streetlife in the Kumartuli quarter

Kolkata: a statue in the Kumartuli quarter

Kolkata: streetlife in the Kumartuli quarter

Kolkata: making temporally statues for the Durga Puja Festival in the Kumartuli quarter

Kolkata: decoration at a temporally temple

Kolkata: streetlife

Kolkata: the Parshwanath Jain Temple (a Jain temple)

Kolkata: streetlife

Kolkata: temporally temple because of the Durga Puja Festival

Kolkata: the Victoria memorial in honour of Queen Victoria (1921)

Night stop during a 24 hour bus trip from Kolkata to Darjeeling

Stop during a 24 hour bus trip from Kolkata to Darjeeling

Arrival at Darjeeling: warningtexts for the traffic at the roadside

Arrival at Darjeeling: little shop on the roadside

Arrival at Darjeeling

View from Darjeeling on the Himalayas with the third highest mountain in the world: the Kanchenjunga (8,586m)

The city of Darjeeling

Darjeeling: the Mahakal Temple on Observatory Hill

Darjeeling: lady at the Mahakal Temple on Observatory Hill

Darjeeling: dancing on the Chowrasta Square because of the Durga Puja Festival

Darjeeling: prayer wheels at a Tibetan refugee camp

View from Darjeeling

Darjeeling: mother with her young daughter

Picture time with a Sikh family at the zoo of Darjeeling

The city of Darjeeling

In the centre of the city of Darjeeling

Market in the centre of the city of Darjeeling

Darjeeling: streetlife

Darjeeling: street food

The city of Darjeeling

A steam locomotive at the train station of Darjeeling

Darjeeling train station

Lady at Darjeeling train station

Yiga Choeling Monastery at Ghoom is one of the oldest Tibetan Buddhist (Gelugpa) monasteries in Darjeeling area built in the year 1850

Prayer wheels at Yiga Choeling Monastery at Ghoom

The 4 meter high statue of Maitreya Buddha inside Yiga Choeling Monastery at Ghoom

The feet of the 4 meter high statue of Maitreya Buddha inside Yiga Choeling Monastery at Ghoom

Inside Yiga Choeling Monastery at Ghoom

Monks blowing the religious horns at the entrance of Yiga Choeling Monastery at Ghoom

Tibetan lady resting in front of Yiga Choeling Monastery at Ghoom

Yiga Choeling Monastery at Ghoom is one of the oldest Tibetan Buddhist (Gelugpa) monasteries in Darjeeling area built in the year 1850

A fair at Darjeeling because of the Durga Puja Festival

Boys at the fair at Darjeeling

Boy at the fair at Darjeeling

Mother and young daughter at the fair at Darjeeling

Girl at the fair at Darjeeling

A fair at Darjeeling because of the Durga Puja Festival

Leaving Darjeeling with a last view on the Kanchenjunga Mountain

Darjeeling: stop in the village Mungpoo while driving up to Sikkim

Stop in the village Mungpoo

Mungpoo: flower

Driving up along the Teesta River to the town of Gangtok in Sikkim

The town of Gangtok in Sikkim

Street life in Gangtok

View on the town of Gangtok, Sikkim

Landscape near the town of Gangtok, Sikkim

Landscape on the way from Gangtok to the Rumtek Monastery. In the background Gangtok can be seen.

View on the town of Gangtok

Landscape on the way from Gangtok to the Rumtek Monastery

Rumtek Monastery of the Karma Kagyu sect in Tibetan Buddhism is located not far from the town of Gangtok. It is the formal seat of the Gyalwang Karmapa.

Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim

Rumtek Monastery of the Karma Kagyu sect in Tibetan Buddhism is located not far from the town of Gangtok. It is the formal seat of the Gyalwang Karmapa.