[sayakc]

Simply brilliant, Golam!
Rated 5 stars and shared on Facebook too.

Mist filled hills, butterflies, green forests and yes, those Aloo Paranthas or that Dinner of Musur dal, hot served rice, Chicken er jhol...are special and hold so many memories.

Enjoyed it thoroughly sir.

[VaibhaoT]

Excellent travelogue & brilliant photographs! Rated 5 stars.
WB surely have many hidden gem like Paren.

Looking at this picture, Joker from Dark Knight would have said, "Why so serious Reeha?"

Originally Posted by gmhossain

Day 5: Drive to Paren
My better half, our daughter Reeha and yours truly
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[NPV]

Well written, nice little travelogue of a beautiful place, thanks for sharing

Great pictures of the calm, serene places, must be an awesome sight when you visited during the monsoons!

Is Bindu one of the entry points commonly used by tourists to visit Bhutan by road ?

[lovecars21]

Excellent detailed Travelogue there! Rated 5 stars.
Like others said, while reading your travelogue I felt as if I was travelling with you.
I could even imagine my Aspire aka Musty parked beside your Estilo at Paren Resort
Paren seems to be a perfect place for monsoon drive.

Kolkata Chapter TLs are raining this monsoon. Keep it up

[us.dash]

Wonderful travelogue!

May you travel on hundreds of such journeys, and may you continue to write such enchanting travelogues!

Paren was completely phoren to me. I have spent a few years in Kolkata and had never even heard of this place. And I considered myself an expert traveller

This forum is indeed humbling

~Umashankar

[gmhossain]

Originally Posted by maju

very interesting travelogue. after reading, i feel like i had travelled from kozhikode(kerala) to paren.

Thank you maju. I am glad that you have enjoyed it!

Originally Posted by PapaBravo

Very nice & crisp narration Hossain Sa'ab. Your narration did take us along with you on your journey. North Bengal has some very nice places like these where one can for weekend.

So NH34 according to you is fully traversable ? Also, what does the checkpost at Jhalong check ?

Thank you Pawan for your appreciation. It was fun reading your recent Ladakh experience. After the resurfacing of Krishnanagar-Baharampur section, NH-34 was in its best shape as a whole in this summer. Given monsoon has kicked in now, there would be some rain damages in next few months. At the check post, they did not check anything for us and simply allowed to us drive through.

Originally Posted by PapaBravo

Please cross post some photos in this thread so that more people are benefited.
Regards,

Yeah, sure! I will do it in next few days.

Originally Posted by sayakc

Simply brilliant, Golam! Rated 5 stars and shared on Facebook too. Mist filled hills, butterflies, green forests and yes, those Aloo Paranthas or that Dinner of Musur dal, hot served rice, Chicken er jhol...are special and hold so many memories.

Thank you Sayak. You are a master of writing; be it a travelogue or a comment!

Originally Posted by VaibhaoT

Excellent travelogue & brilliant photographs! Rated 5 stars! WB surely have many hidden gem like Paren.

Looking at this picture, Joker from Dark Knight would have said, "Why so serious Reeha?"

Thank you VaibhaoT. Yeah, she looks serious in the picture. Actually, she had fallen asleep in the car when we had reached there.

Originally Posted by NPV

Well written, nice little travelogue of a beautiful place, thanks for sharing. Great pictures of the calm, serene places, must be an awesome sight when you visited during the monsoons! Is Bindu one of the entry points commonly used by tourists to visit Bhutan by road ?

Thank you NPV for the appreciation. At Bindu there was a pathway over the dam. We saw locals crossing over it in both directions. However, we were told by a security staff that the pathway was off-limit to the tourists. The regular entry point for tourists to enter Bhutan by road is at Phuntsholing, around 120 km from Bindu towards east.

Originally Posted by lovecars21

Excellent detailed Travelogue there! Rated 5 stars. Like others said, while reading your travelogue I felt as if I was travelling with you.
I could even imagine my Aspire aka Musty parked beside your Estilo at Paren Resort
Paren seems to be a perfect place for monsoon drive.

Thank you Arunasish. I was awestruck while reading your recent Ladakh travelogue. Yes, your Musty would look brilliant at Paren.

Originally Posted by us.dash

Wonderful travelogue! May you travel on hundreds of such journeys, and may you continue to write such enchanting travelogues! Paren was completely phoren to me. I have spent a few years in Kolkata and had never even heard of this place. And I considered myself an expert.

~Umashankar

Thank you Umashankar. It is my pleasure that you have enjoyed it. I agree with you, Paren is not a very common destination.

[1100D]

Wonderful travelogue and a super trip. You have saved me a trip to this location!!

[vdm295]

Paren seems to be a very nice destination away from the city & pollution free environment. This place looks very green & gives a very soothing feel to the eyes.
It was nice hearing that West Bengal tourism department is taking all efforts to attract tourism by making the place of stay more comfortable. Last but not the least you have added another beautiful destination for me on my must visit list.

[Samba]

Awesome travelogue. The pics you have shared, pretty much sums up the beautiful essence of this place.

Dooars in monsoon is beautiful. I can feel the way you enjoyed the trip. The pics of the very basic yet clean rooms with all the needful amenities and the simple yet tasty foods make these trips more worth. Am sure none will love the extra comfort of a star hotel in these places. Atleast i will love the way you did the trip. The sole purpose of these trips are to stay connected with nature. Away from the city chaos, staying amidst of the lush green Himalayan foot hills and enjoying the sound of nature while its raining is price less.

Rated 5*

Edit- Hope to meet you on 24th July at the Team Bhp monsoon meet!
http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/team-b...ly-2016-a.html

[Bageera]

Great Travelogue & pics. Rated 5 stars!

The place really looks good and I think the highlight is its still not commercialized as other hill stations. You can really connect with nature. Appreciate WB Tourism in putting efforts to maintain the infrastructure.

[noo.b]

Lovely work gmhossain, the pictures were beautiful too, especially the ones with the butterflies in the foliage and the one pic of the ferns.

[Sheel]

Beautiful, these are a sight for our sore eyes. Sore seeing all this concrete and the harsh sun.

I just love these quaint destinations, they have a charm of their own. I prefer these to popular and touristy destinations.

[gmhossain]

Originally Posted by 1100D

Wonderful travelogue and a super trip. You have saved me a trip to this location!!

Thank you Anirban. I hope, you will take your Marengo there someday.

Originally Posted by vdm295

Paren seems to be a very nice destination away from the city & pollution free environment. This place looks very green & gives a very soothing feel to the eyes. It was nice hearing that West Bengal tourism department is taking all efforts to attract tourism by making the place of stay more comfortable. Last but not the least you have added another beautiful destination for me on my must visit list.

Thank you vdm295. Indeed, current government is putting some efforts to improve tourism infrastructure in WB.

Originally Posted by Samba

Awesome travelogue. The pics you have shared, pretty much sums up the beautiful essence of this place.

Dooars in monsoon is beautiful. I can feel the way you enjoyed the trip. The pics of the very basic yet clean rooms with all the needful amenities and the simple yet tasty foods make these trips more worth. Am sure none will love the extra comfort of a star hotel in these places. Atleast i will love the way you did the trip. The sole purpose of these trips are to stay connected with nature. Away from the city chaos, staying amidst of the lush green Himalayan foot hills and enjoying the sound of nature while its raining is price less.

Edit- Hope to meet you on 24th July at the Team Bhp monsoon meet!
http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/team-b...ly-2016-a.html

Thank you very much Samba. Surely, I would love to attend one of the Kolkata Team-BHP meet sometime. Let me see whether I can make it to the next one.

Originally Posted by Bageera

Great Travelogue & pics. Rated 5 stars!
The place really looks good and I think the highlight is its still not commercialized as other hill stations. You can really connect with nature. Appreciate WB Tourism in putting efforts to maintain the infrastructure.

Thank you Bageera. You are right, definitely this hill is much less commercialized compared to others.

Originally Posted by noo.b

Lovely work gmhossain, the pictures were beautiful too, especially the ones with the butterflies in the foliage and the one pic of the ferns.

Thank you noo.b.

Originally Posted by Sheel

Beautiful, these are a sight for our sore eyes. Sore seeing all this concrete and the harsh sun. I just love these quaint destinations, they have a charm of their own. I prefer these to popular and touristy destinations.

Thank you Sheel. I fully agree with you. I find these places to be much more rejuvenating than the crowded tourist places.

[pduttaghy]

Wonderful TL gmhossain. Your pictures have depicted the place so beautifully that I am getting tempted to make a plan to Paren immediately. May I ask when did you do this trip? Was it very recent? I am asking mainly because if I plan to take this trip two weeks down the line will it be possible or because of monsoons reaching Paren may be difficult.

[gmhossain]

Originally Posted by pduttaghy

Wonderful TL gmhossain. Your pictures have depicted the place so beautifully that I am getting tempted to make a plan to Paren immediately. May I ask when did you do this trip? Was it very recent? I am asking mainly because if I plan to take this trip two weeks down the line will it be possible or because of monsoons reaching Paren may be difficult.

Thanks a lot pduttaghy. We visited Paren between May 16 and May 18, 2016. There were pre-monsoon rain even during our trip. Given monsoon has kicked in fully now, I am not sure how much rain damages to the road are expected in the region. However, I don't recall seeing any stretch of the road which was evidently landslide-prone.

Best,