...space. A car or taxi will take you to Darjeeling & then to the Singtom-Steinthal tea estate via Highway 55 - ……but the drive can take 3 hours! I lived in Kolkata for many years. My personal preferred travel method is an overnight train from Kolkata & then to jump on the ‘Toy Train’ up to Darjeeling – ……as soon as it fully re-opens - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darjeeling_Himalayan_Railway Let's have a little bit of Jack as I drink some - ~ Steinthal Est. FTGFOP1 Cl. Musc Sunrise 2nd Fl. Organic tea from 2012 ~ - I have about 300g of the leaves left...... ~ 'Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sitting there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waiting for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.' Japhy got out the tea, Chinese tea, and sprinkled some in a tin pot, and had the fire going meanwhile, a small one to begin with, the sun was still on us, and stuck a long stick tight down under a few big rocks and made himself something to hang the teapot on and pretty soon the water was boiling and he poured it out steaming into the tin pot and we had cups of tea with our tin cups. I myself'd gotten the water from the stream, which was cold and pure like snow and the crystal-lidded eyes of heaven. Therefore, the tea was by far the most pure and thirst quenching tea I ever drank in all my life, it made you want to drink more and more, it actually quenched your thirst and of course it swam around hot in your belly. ~ Dharma Bum's excerpt - (From Chapter 9: Japhy Ryder and Ray Smith are camping out after a day of mountain climbing)