Silk Route Tours Namchi · Sikkim
Tea gardens on the hillsides below Darjeeling Darjeeling

Queen of the hills

Darjeeling & the Tea Hills

  • Usually 3 to 4 nights
  • Darjeeling › Tiger Hill › Batasia Loop › Mirik
  • Typical shape
  • Your choice

The tea gardens, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and a ridge town that has been walking its Mall Road at five in the evening for a century.

Price on Request Quoted for your dates, hotel category and group size

Highlights

  • Sunrise from Tiger Hill — a pre-dawn start and a queue of vehicles
  • The toy train joyride, when seats are available
  • Batasia Loop, the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute and the zoo
  • A day out to Mirik, or down to the gardens

Day by Day

Silk Route Tours does not publish a fixed day-by-day plan for this one. It is put together for your dates and confirmed with you before anything is booked — which is why there is no schedule invented here. Send an enquiry and you will get the actual plan for your trip.

What’s Included

Inclusions for this itinerary are set when it is quoted, because they depend on the hotel category and the shape of the trip. The strip below is the usual shape; the quote you receive lists the exact detail.

  • Hotel
  • Meals
  • Sightseeing
  • Transfers
  • No permits are needed for Darjeeling itself, which makes it simple to combine with Sikkim.
  • October to December gives the clearest mornings for Tiger Hill.
  • Toy train joyride seats are limited and sell out in season.

Other Packages

Different shapes for the same corner of the Himalaya.

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