Tiger Hill is a thirty minute jeep ride south of Darjeeling, at a higher altitude of about 2,600 meters. It is a popular place to watch the sun rise over the Indian Himalaya, and specifically, Mt. Kanchenjunga. As it was the pre-monsoon season, clear views of the mountains were hard to come by, even in the early morning. I wasn't going out of my way to get up early for a Tiger Hill sunrise, though when the opportunity to share the experience (and cost) with Natalie, Sarah, and Cameron arose, I figured it was worth a try.
Kango Suz says
Wow, that really is too bad about Tiger Hill - the description of the event in a biography I read several years ago was amazing. I can't remember the name of the guy the biography was about though, but he went on and on about how he couldn't get his wife to go with him at that hour and she stayed in the valley and went to the market. She wrote him a response in a poem where she points out that while he was out having his 'mountain top experience' she was in the valley meeting people and living life. It's cool that you get to do both so frequently on your trip!
Kango Suz says
Wow, that really is too bad about Tiger Hill - the description of the event in a biography I read several years ago was amazing. I can't remember the name of the guy the biography was about though, but he went on and on about how he couldn't get his wife to go with him at that hour and she stayed in the valley and went to the market. She wrote him a response in a poem where she points out that while he was out having his 'mountain top experience' she was in the valley meeting people and living life. It's cool that you get to do both so frequently on your trip!