Hightailing it out of Darjeeling

Arrived near Siliguri Tuesday (16th) from a train leaving Kolkata (Calcutta) and took an auto-rickshaw to a jeep taxi station. This 2 1/2 hour jeep shuttle service is seemingly the only way to get up to Darjeeling from Siliguri.

Yesterday it was told to me that the jeep service workers were going to have a strike. Unless I left at that momement, I would have been stuck there until this Saturday. So now I am trying to figure out how I am going to make it to Agra to see the Tajj Mahal before finishing in Delhi. If I got stuck in Darjeeling I am pretty sure I would not have enough time to see the Tajj Mahal before going home. How anticlimactic would that be? Would have liked to spend more time in Darjeeling but what I did see was good.
 

Porting is big business.

A spot of tea?

Side street on the hilly terrain.