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A Visit to Nepali orad imdia by road

By Rifat Mahmud (Fahim)
On the 21 st of January 2000 we started for a nice trip to India and Nepal by road It was a hectic trip which lasted for only for three days.
On that day in Hie morning we went to the Gabtoli bus-stand by a taxi. At 8 15 am the bus started for its long journey to Burimari in the district of Lalmonirhat. a place joined to the Indian border The bus was really cool. During the journey we crossed the Jamuna Bridge and we saw the Sritl Shaudha a-id many other things We crossed districts like Tangall. Shirajganj. Bogra, Rangpui Lalmonirhat etc. The bus stopped at Lalmonirhat for 20 minutes
There 1 have an uncle who is a BDR officer. My father was also a BDR officer and my uncle knew him well. So we stopped at the BDR rest house for the night. It was about 330 p.m. when we reached the house. We had our dinner at my uncle's house At six 'o' clock in the morning we ale our breakfast and set out for our 95 kilometer Journey to Burimari, with my uncle and two BDR soldiers We made our Journey by a BDR jeep. We saw the border pillars in between the borders and also the observation post made by the BSF After the journey of 95 kilometers the jeep reached a BDR camp There were about 18 BDR soldiers and they honored my father and uncle a lot as their senior officers At the camp we had some light food. Then we went to the border There we met some BSF soldiers There, the BSF captain Naresh Kumar came Io meet us
After we crossed the Changrabandha border we gol a microbus at the cost of 420 Indian rupees which took us to Shlllguri. From there we went to the Nepal border by a local bus. After we crossed the Ranlganj border of Nepal we crossed the 200 meters long bridge on foot called the Meehl Bridge I found no differences between India and Nepal Even the Indian currency Is used at Nepal and I was surprised to see that no visa is needed for people to cross the Nepalese border. We took our lunch at a hotel of Nepal and we enjoyed the food greatly We shopped very little as everything costs so much. We bought six beautiful knives called Khurkl (In the Nepalese language)
On the same day we crossed the border and reached India. From there we went to Shiliguri by a bus. People in Shiliguri knew Bangla very well. There we saw two kinds of jeeps, which were the commander and Marshall jeep These jeeps are owned by the government and are used to make rough Journeys throughout the hill routes
Our target was to reach Darjeeling on that night So we caught a commander jeep for the journey for the cost of 45 rupees ?er peison. I had a very bad journey by that jeep as it was full of people and I couldn't see anything as it we were travelling at night. Some people were sitting on the floor of the jeep Some people were sitting on the roof of the jeep and altogether it was a very dull in the Jeep Though I couldn't see anything. I felt the jeep going up and up and the most horrible thing was that when I watched through the small door of the jeep (the jeep contained no windows) I found that we are thousands and thousands of feet up from the ground I was really surprised to see that I felt that I was sitting In a plane. We were watching the lights of the towns, which were k thousands of foot below us. I found out that we are climbing a mountain. A long narrow road had been made through the mountain, which stopped at the peak of the mountain It was so cold that I was about to freeze The jeep was going round and round the road and it was also going very fast At last the jeep stopped in the front of a hotel So, we booked a room in the hotel by 930 at night We had our dinner at the hotel, and spent the night there. In the morning when It was about 1030 we had our breakfast and went to shop. We took some photographs there. We bought six shawls at the cost of 110 Indian rupee each Then we went back to the hotel and picked up all our bags After that we left the hotel and hired another commander jeep
This time I saw the real beauty of Darjeeling, we traveled very comfortably, as there were few people in the jeep We saw many springs tea gardens schools and clouds around us. At 130 p.m we reached Shiliguri and hired a taxi to go to the border at the cost of 400 rupees We bargained a lot but the drivers didn’t decrease the money When the taxi came near the border, the Immigration and customs people checked our passport and we crossed the border.
Then we went to the BDR camp and took our lunch ?.?re. After that we returned to our home by a microbus very comfortably It was a very exciting trip for me and I learnt many things from it it. I liked this trip very much.