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Jayanti - The Beginning

Oye oye! I am writing a blog for the first time. Its gonna be informal (childish or child-dish?) man! Not sure when I will be able to finish this post. I guess I will write minimum four or five lines per day (huh...this is called high speed writing). I am going to write about a nature trip with my pals. What else subject could come in my mind! I am taking myself back on a time machine.

It is the month of December. A time for outing and picnic in our land. Though I like traveling, I have got very few opportunity to travel and explore different places in my life. Some friends of mine traveled to different parts of our country with their family since childhood. However most of my friends have dry luck in this field. But this time, for me its going to be different than the previous years. I am going for a trip to jungle with my friends. 

We have formed a group of four. The tour planner is Soumya. We guessed an estimated budget per head for the entire trip. I do not have detail knowledge of the places that we are going to cover. But I have some idea that we are going to see places having mountain, river and jungle and we are going to have fun. 

We are now going to Sealdah station to board the train Kanchankanya Express. Argha has met me at the bus stop near my home. I have taken a knapsack only. Argha has taken a kit bag and a plastic bag containing a blanket. We have boarded a bus of route no 45 which goes to Sealdah station. Soumendu and Soumya will meet with us at the railway station. Argha does not have any cash with him at this moment. He is thinking he will take cash from an ATM at our destination. I am thinking probably there will be two tigers providing security to the ATM each having twelve hours of shift.

Finally we have made it and we all four are on the train (its a big deal to make a trip finally happen for all the people as planned initially). The train started and we are taking some maiden snaps of ourselves. We are having fun man!

Its morning time and our train is running. Our train passed New Jalpaiguri station sometimes back. We have seen the beautiful Coronation Bridge on the river Teesta. Few years back during my engineering course I visited the Coronation Bridge. At that time I was staying in the university hostel. From the hostel we used to go for a picnic at a far away place in every year. When I was in the final year, we had come to this place for the picnic. At that time seeing the single railway line, I was wondering if any train runs on this route or not. Now I am sitting in a train moving on the same railway line. The views along this route are amazing. Argha is standing at the door to enjoy the thrill. Rest of us are glued beside the windows.

The train route from Kolkata to Alipurduar

( Please don't judge by scale ;) )

This railway line actually passes through the Dooars area. It covers most of the Dooars width from the west to the east. We are running through this route for couple of hours now. We have crossed some rivers on our way. We have seen the jungles mostly on our left side. Whereas on our right side we have seen mostly tea gardens. 

Now the train compartments are having very few passengers. There were many tourists on the train. Most of them have got off the train at the Hasimara railway station. There are few local passengers boarded on the train on the way. Probably seeing that most seats are empty, they have got on this compartment. Seeing the railway ticket checker is not bothered with this unauthorized passengers on-board, I am assuming this is probably the common way of commuting in this region.  
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