The Planning & Suggestions, June 28, 2009

Hello Everybody,
We are two friends, Raj & Sid. Today we thought of a blog in which we can describe the whole details of our trekking to Sandakphu. We have 9 guys in total in our group (Mrinal Pyne, Avijit Sanyal, Avishek Mukherjee, Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay(Sid / Guddu), Molay Dutta(Raj), Saikat Ghosh, Abhranil Basu, Robin Chatterjee and Arghya Dutta). We will introduce our members in details gradually as our blog will move on.
So, we gathered at Mrinal's house to discuss about our route, bookings of railway tickets, hotels etc. We decided that we would start our journey on 27th Sep, 2009 on the holy occasion of Maha-Nabami. We targeted the 3141 Teesta-Torsa Exp. for our journey from Kolkata(Sealdah) to New Jalpaiguri. At the end of discussion, we decided that I(Sid) & Avishek would try through the Internet(http://www.irctc.co.in/) seperately and Raj, Abhra & Robin would go the railway counter at the 'earliest' morning. We planned that we would attempt in all the possible way to book the railway tickets although it was perfectly 90 days remaining our jounrney and before tommorow morning the booking of railway tickets is not possible. The reason behind it was the time we planned our journey during Durga Puja and according to our experience in that time its very very difficult to book the tickets.