Checked out from the hostel in the morning, I took a taxi to move to the one I wanted to stay. There was a restaurant in the hostel, I took a lunch there (I had my dinners in this place for all night in Darjeeling as I was too tried to find other restaurants, also there was a time limit for hot shower). When I had my lunch, an old man sat in the cashier asked "hey, young man, where are you from?". And I said, "Hong Kong". He felt quite excited. He told me that he used to work for British Army few decades ago. He followed the troop to serve in Hong Kong and stationed in Sha Tau Kok. He shared his memories in Hong Kong with me, told me what food he like, where he had been, he also told me his daughter was born in a hospital near Observatory Hill. I just felt like I was back to home.
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| On the way to the tea estate. |
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| The beautiful view in Darjeeling. |
After lunch, I started visiting Darjeeling. I walked to a tea garden called Happy Valley Tea Estate, it declared that their tea was provided to Harrods. When I walked down to the farm, I didn't see any worker working on the farm, but there was a worker approached me who took me to look around the factory with only the machines. After that, he showed me a small house on the path and asked me did I want to drink some tea. I went inside the room to see and, of course, drink tea. In the house, there was an old lady, I think she was well known as there was so many notebook with comments from visitors all around the world. She was so enthusiastic that she taught me how to distinguish different qualities of tea, and she helped me to take pictures and make video. It's so funny.
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| Tea House |
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| Children in the farm. |
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