Darjeeling

Ghoom Monastery

Ghoom Monastery is the popular name of Yiga Choeling Monastery located at Ghum at an elevation of 8,000 feet,

• 8 km from Darjeeling,
• It contains images of Buddha’s disciples, Chenrezi and Chongapa ,
• It was built in 1875 by Lama Sherab Gyatso,.

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Batasia Loop(TOY TRAIN)

• It's located on Hill Cart Road, takes 20 minutes from Darjeeling town.
• There is no better place to get a 360 degree view of Darjeeling's landscape including the hill town and the snow covered peaks of the Eastern Himalayas
• And all this from the middle of a lovely flowering garden around which the toy train track is laid. 
• Batasia means airy space, There are seating areas as well to enjoy the views.
• The entire area along with the gardens and an approach bridge that leads to the garden is about 50,000 square feet.
• It has been covered with grass and beautified with both seasonal and perennial flowers and shrubs.
• You can walk along the track and complete the loop for yourself.

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Himalayan Mountaineering Institute

• The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI) is one of the premier mountaineering institutes in the world,
• Founded on November 4th: 1954 by none other than Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India
• The institute is located in the picturesque hill station of Darjeeling, 
• In more than 62 years of its existence, the Institute has trained more than 45,000 thousand students including 2,500 from different foreign countries

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Pnz Zoological Park

• Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (also called the Darjeeling Zoo) is a 67.56- acre (27.3 ha) zoo in the town of Darjeeling
• It specializes in breeding animals adapted to alpine conditions, and has successful captive breeding programs for the snow leopard, the critically endangered Himalayan wolf and the red panda
• The zoo now contains endangered animals like snow leopards, red pandas, gorals (mountain goat), Siberian tigers and a variety of endangered birds. 

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Tenzing Rock

• Rock climbing in Darjeeling is another challenging outdoor sport for those who love and live adventure.
• Rock climbing is an activity in which you will climb up or across natural rock formations with the goal of reaching the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre- defined route.
• Tenzing Rock, a gigantic natural rock in Darjeeling is named after Tenzing Norgay, the man who created history by climbing the Everest first time along with Edmund Hillary in 1953.

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Tibetean Refuge Centre

• The place initially provided emergency relief to Tibetan refugees who had come through a hazardous trek over the Himalayas into India.
• The Hill-side had a special significance for Tibetans, because of the fact that Thirteenth Dalai Lama had spent his exile in India from 1910 to 1912 following the Chinese invasion of Tibet at that time.
• It is located at hillside Lebong in Darjeeling District of West Bengal. 
• The altitude is approximately 2,143 m (7,031 ft) above sea level..
• The temperature variation is from 17°-1.5 °C, along with an annual 320 cm rainfall.

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Tea Garden

• It is available in black, green, white and oolong.
• When properly brewed, it yields a thin-bodied, light-coloured infusion with a floral aroma.
• The flavour can include a tinge of astringenttannic characteristics and a musky spiciness sometimes described as "muscatel". 
• Tea Tourism is a relatively new concept in the world and Darjeeling is a taking a lead in this area.
• High on the hills with cool breeze and misty weather, planters and workers come together to form a wonderland where tea grows in the finest form like no where else in the world.

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Ava Art Gallery

• It is a bright purple and yellow colored two storied building on the Hill Cart Road towards Darjeeling town center.
• Ava Art Gallery was jointly established in 1965 by Late Ava Devi who was known as a genius of embroidery art, and Bhopal Rao Sett.
• Only of its kind in Darjeeling, it boasts of 60 pieces of artwork by the genius of embroidery art, Late Ava Devi.

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Rock garden

• Situated at a distance of about 10 kilometres from Darjeeling.
• While travelling from along Darjeeling Hill Cart Road, one has to turn right, before reaching Ghum.
• The road slopes sharply into the valley. A lot of scenic view points dot the journey.

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Ganga Maya Park

• Sit on top of one of those, deep your feet into the water, enjoy the sound of the flowing water and the scenery around.
• There is a large circular platform in Ganga Maya Park where local cultural programs like folk dances are performed during the high tourist season (Summer and Autumn)

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Japanese Temple

• This is a beautiful Japanese temple situated at a distance of 10 minutes distance from the Darjeeling town center.
• The temple is also known as the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Temple.
• Photography is allowed inside the premises. However, one is prohibited from taking photos of the prayer room during prayer ceremony.

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Rock garden

• Situated at a distance of about 10 kilometres from Darjeeling.
• While travelling from along Darjeeling Hill Cart Road, one has to turn right, before reaching Ghum.
• The road slopes sharply into the valley. A lot of scenic view points dot the journey.

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