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...hours, but it's more fun to spread the trip across two days, allowing for a night's rest under the stars. There are several organized treks from Darjeeling, and you can get a bed at the government-owned trekker's bungalow at Sandakphu; for more information contact the Tourist Bureau...
...tourist brochures say you should visit in April or May, when the flowers are in bloom: locals claim there are over 600 varieties of orchid in the forests. (Warning: some are poisonous.) But unless you have a thing for botany, the best time to go is November, when the skies are clear and the views unclouded. Stand on the ridge, face north and turn your face from left to right for a 180? panorama of the Himalayas at their highest. You'll feel small?and get a big thrill...
...hours, but it's more fun to spread the trip across two days, allowing for a night's rest under the stars. There are several organized treks from Darjeeling, and you can get a bed at the government-owned trekker's bungalow at Sandakphu; for more information contact the Tourist Bureau, tel: (91-354) 225 4050. The tourist brochures say you should visit in April or May, when the flowers are in bloom: locals claim there are over 600 varieties of orchid in the forests. (Warning: some are poisonous.) But unless you have a thing for botany, the best time...
...SENTENCED. CHARLES SOBHRAJ, 60, to life in prison for the murder of an American tourist in 1975; in Kathmandu, Nepal. Also known as the "Serpent" and the "Bikini Killer," the half-Indian, half-Vietnamese Sobhraj is alleged to be one of Asia's deadliest serial killers, preying on Western backpackers on the hippie circuit in the 1970s. Brilliant, charming and fluent in seven languages, he taunted police with their inability to catch or keep him, breaking out of jail four times. He is accused of killing another backpacker in Nepal, as well as five more in Thailand, two in India...
...talk [about what Booth had seen in the Walled City], maybe you [end up] like this.'" He also sees a glitzier side of Hong Kong, the shopping paradise. "I knew I could not just walk into one of these shops so I worked the obvious ploy, waiting until a tourist couple entered and tagging along camouflaged as their child," Booth reports. "It worked time and again and I got to study - close up - such marvels as Audemars Piguet, Longines and Vacheron et Constantin gold watches, emeralds as green as still water and as big as peas, and Rolliflex and Leica...