Darjeeling
West Bengal, India
Tea gardens planted in the 1850s, a UNESCO-listed narrow-gauge railway still working the ridge, and Kanchenjunga filling the northern sky.
- Trips here
- On request
- From
- On request
- Next departure
- On request
- State
- West Bengal
No fixed dates in Darjeeling yet
We run Darjeeling privately, on your dates, until the fixed departures are set.
Ask us for Darjeeling dates
We publish a departure only once the season, the stay and the guide are settled. Until then we run private versions — same leaders, your dates.
- A planner calls you back, usually the same working day.
- Tell us the month and we will say if it is the wrong one.
- You hear from us first when the fixed dates go live.
Talk it through first
A planner calls you back, no obligation.
What to know about Darjeeling
Darjeeling sits at about 2,045 m on a spur above the Rangeet and Teesta valleys, and almost everything about it is inherited: the Chowrasta promenade, the Planters' Club, the Victorian bandstand, and the tea gardens — Happy Valley, Makaibari, Glenburn — laid out from the 1850s onward on slopes too steep for anything else.
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway has run since 1881 and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. The Batasia Loop above Ghum is the piece most visitors see; riding the full climb from New Jalpaiguri takes the better part of a day and is a commitment rather than a photo stop.
When to go. October and November for the cleanest Kanchenjunga views, including the pre-dawn crowd at Tiger Hill. March to May for rhododendron and the first flush in the gardens. The monsoon, June to September, closes the ridge in cloud for days at a time.
Photographs of Darjeeling by their creators — photo credits.
