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Oh Calcutta!

Calcutta, India



From Bangkok we jump on a Druk Air plane to Paro, Bhutan via Calcutta.. Druk Air is Bhutan's national airline, and it is the only way in and out of Bhutan (by air).

On arriving in Calcutta we are informed that there will a 'brief' delay due to bad weather in our final destination, Paro, Bhutan (This brief delay turned out to be a 4 hour stopover). As a result, we are ushered off the plane, and an entire (small) plane-ful of eager passengers are crammed into a tiny waiting room where there was definitely more stranded tourists than seats, we learnt this the hard way after getting restless and deciding to go explore Calcutta airport.. only to discover that we were under lock and key (literally) and we couldn't actually go very far at all!

Here is the summary of explorations.. (ok, don't get too excited..) On the wall outside of a thoroughly disgusting toilet (with no toilet paper.. ), there was a homely (looked like it might have been made by local school kids) decoupage map of India with pictures of India's famous landmarks in their appropriate positions, around the corner there was a creaky old lift that went down to the floor below (however the rest of this lower floor was cordoned off so we couldn't actually go much farther than the lift itself, except to get to..) some stairs that led back up from the floor below.

PS. From chatting to our new friend, xx, we learn that such delays to & from Bhutan are not uncommon and almost expected (due to frequently rainy mornings, but tends to clear up eventually).. naturally this makes us a little concerned about our flight home, as we have a very tight connection in Thailand.

Oh.. there was also a little tobacco/alcohol/souvenir/snack shop with these interesting teas which unfortunately we didn't get a chance to sample.. o_O




permalink written by  cherie on September 24, 2006 from Calcutta, India
from the travel blog: Bhutan 2006
tagged TajMahal, DrukAir and DarjeelingTea

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