Darjeeling – for Some Excellent Experiences to Cherish a Lifetime

Author: Aanchal011 | Posted: 09.04.2012

Northeast offers umpteen opportunities to visit some glorious places and relish your holiday. Some of the places you can include in your trip to North eastern India are Darjeeling tours, tour of Gangtok and Kalimpong. Darjeeling is located in West Bengal and is known as the land of thunderbolt. It houses the best of hill stations and it is rightly called the Queen of Hill Stations. The green hills, snow capped mountains and the cool breeze – all this and much more make for that perfect holiday you are looking for in Darjeeling tours.

People from various cities flock this place to beat all that stress accumulated in their fast paced life. Tour in Darjeeling includes some of the must see places like Nightingale park, Lloyd Botanical Garden, Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Passenger Ropeway, Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, Zoo, Museums and the fun filled ride on the Himalayan toy train which is listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Other than these you can include a tour of Gangtok in your Darjeeling trip. The tour in Darjeeling is a visual treat with its lush green hills.

Since there are so many visitors from all over the world, Darjeeling has some of the best restaurants offering all varieties of food. If you are looking out for that exact Darjeeling kind of stuff, then you can go out shopping in places like Chowrasta and Mall. The Tiger Hill is one of the highest hills in the world tourist destinations. Some of the languages spoken are English, Hindi, Nepali, Tibetan and Bengali. The diversity of the people residing here contributes to the celebration of all types of festivals, both Indian and Nepalese. In fact every month, there is some or the other kind of festival celebrations. The temperatures dip really low during winters and hence summers are the best chosen time to visit Darjeeling. The temperature is pleasantly cool at around 20 degrees.

Talking about Darjeeling and not making a special mention about the Darjeeling Tea will make this piece of information about Darjeeling tours incomplete. The best aromatic tea in the world is produced here. There are around 86 tea gardens. Most of the tea estates have china hybrid plants and some Assam hybrid plants. Various factors like the altitude, soil type, slopes and character of Nepal laborers contribute to the strong and aromatic flavor of the Darjeeling tea. If you have not stopped over any local shop for a cup of tea, in your tour in Darjeeling, you are sure to miss the local flavor. Just drop by any local tea shop you will have the best tea ever served. The entire place is covered by stretches of trees of pine and fur variety. These trees are well covered by the snow clad mountains of the Himalayan range.

Considering the fact that this place attracts a whole lot of people, the town is well connected in terms of roadways and railways. A couple of days extra at your disposal and you can consider tour of Gangtok which promises to be as adventurous as your holiday in Darjeeling.



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