I hope you enjoy this great travel blog from two of our visitors to Makaibari, Lis and Phil. The pictures are wonderful and so too is their travel diary. They took advantage of the HomeStay opportunity at Makaibari which allowed them to stay with one of the workers. All the cities and towns covered in [...]
Category Archives: Darjeeling
Finding Makaibari
So a guy goes to Delicious Orchards, a food market in New Jersey. He purchases a tea called “Brahmin” by Smith Tea. Loves it. He calls Smith Tea in Oregon which is a small boutique tea company recently launched by our friend Steve Smith, previously, owner of Tazo Tea (now owned by Starbucks). Steve’s right-hand person [...]
Swiss visitors at Makaibari
A group of 11 visitors from Switzerland are at Makaibari staying with villagers as part of the Makaibari Homestay programme. For a nominal daily charge, each visitor stays with a local family at Makaibari and sees local hospitality at the grass roots level. They share their meals and get a feel for a tea estate [...]
Good works at Makaibari
Imagine that a young man takes 8 weeks and goes to India to teach at a school in Darjeeling, India. He is shown great affection by the villagers there and he loves his experience. Now imagine it is 3 years later and his parents raise over $20,000 to provide safe drinking water to the villagers and families [...]
Rajah Banerjee/Makaibari in the news
I got a very excited call from my sister-in-law last week saying she heard Rajah quoted on NPR Marketplace (National Public Radio). I couldn’t believe it! So here it is – a short piece on organic co-operatives in Darjeeling. Read or listen to it. Rajah has been nurturing this fledgling operation to grow and manufacture [...]