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Arrived here in Darjeeling yesterday evening after a 3 hour drive up into the mountains from Bagdogra airport. The scenery as we got higher and higher was incredible with little houses built on stilts perched right on the edge of a mountain. Last night I stayed in a Late Maharaja's palace, now used by his family as a summer home, though at the moment, lived in by one his sons and his wife. It was a very old building with the rooms inside built around a central dome. We were made very welcome and were entertained with lots of stories from 'p**** #39; (the wife) over breakfast this morning. Later on today I'm moving on (down the moutain a little way) to stay on a Tea plantation where I'll be doing my next community work with the plantation families.
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