Word: rhododendrons
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...scary in that everything grows everywhere all the time," King says. "I don't think it's any accident that when I had the idea for the book, I was walking down the side of a road, it was getting dark, and I was literally entombed in foliage?big rhododendron bushes, like 20 feet high...
...Bloomer The flowers of this WHITE RHODODENDRON, which has not yet been identified, measure nearly 15 cm across-matching the largest of its kind on record...
...easiest access is by one of Darjeeling's famous vintage Land Rover taxis: it's a bumpy four-hour ride over some nasty terrain. The scenic route is on foot, a 30-km trek from Manebhanjan town. The route is dotted with rhododendron and magnolia forests and calls for many steep climbs, all of which will slow you down?the better to take in the stunning views. Expert trekkers can make it in 12 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...
...easiest access is by one of Darjeeling's famous vintage Land Rover taxis: it's a bumpy four-hour ride over some nasty terrain. The scenic route is on foot, a 30-km trek from Manebhanjan town. The route is dotted with rhododendron and magnolia forests and calls for many steep climbs, all of which will slow you down - the better to take in the stunning views. Expert trekkers can make it in 12 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...
...winding trail climbs steeply over a foothill of the province's stunning Meili range, through forests of rhododendron and towering hemlock and past open views of the snow-capped peaks that have kept Yubeng in a state of fairy-tale seclusion. By the time we finally crest a prayer flag-festooned summit and drop into the valley below, it's late afternoon. Beneath us are the handful of dwellings that shelter Yubeng's 65 ethnic-Tibetan inhabitants; in the crook of a slim, glacial stream, a white, sagging stupa glows in the low sunlight. The locals feed and water their...