On one crazy adventure from Darjeeling to Sikkim, we ditched the Darjeeling to Sikkim train and Darjeeling to Sikkim bus, and hiked across the border through tea estates, forests and remote villages! We impulsively decided to venture into the remote north-eastern Himalayas of India. At an organic tea farm an hour’s ride from Darjeeling, sipped the finest hand-rolled tea. Drank the local thomba brewed from fermented millets on chilly nights. Got a first hand perspective on the separatist Gorkhaland movement. And reminisced with the hill folk about the times gone by. Then we hiked in the mountains, through dense forests, past charming hill villages, along tea estates that dotted the landscape, barefoot across the Rangeet River… to cross the border into Sikkim! In Photos: Hiking from Darjeeling to Sikkim The Darjeeling Sikkim hike began along the tea estates of Darjeeling Organized by our hosts at Tathgata Farm. Carpets of green stretched into the horizon, as far as the eyes could see. We followed tea pluckers as they started their day Plucking the finest tea in India with their nimble fingers. The Darjeeling to Sikkim …