Himalayan Hotel

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“On the outskirts of the European quarter, above the Post Office, stands the Himalayan Hotel, the town’s only guest house that comes up to European standards. It belongs to David Macdonald, known to everyone as ‘Daddy’, the former British Trade Agent in the Central Tibetan town of Gyantse [...] The Himalayan Hotel is run by Annie Perry, ‘Daddy’ Macdonald’s eldest daughter [...] The small dining-room of the Himalayan Hotel is the meeting place for the Europeans living in Kalimpong. Strangers often find their way in here as well merchants from Calcutta, owners and employers of neighbouring tea plantations, Tibetan nobles and their families, journalists, philologists and ethnologists, and now and then a tourist who has strayed from the beaten track of Indian tourism.”

[Nebesky-Wojkowitz, René von. 1957a. Where the Gods Are Mountains: Three Years among the People of the Himalayas. Translated by Michael Bullock. New York: Reynal and Company, 80-82]