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Hotel Sikkim

Hotel Sikkim

Mid-range (Rs250-1000 per room night) The main hotels are centrally located. The Nor-Khill (tel 3186/7), Paljor Stadium Rd has rooms, including meals, from Rs 750 single and Rs1150 double. The other ‘starred’ hotel is the Tashi Delek (tel 2991, 2038) ...

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Sikkim Tourism

Sikkim Tourism

Gangtok is at a height of 1574 m above sea-level and became the capital of Sikkim in the 19th century. Built along a ridge by the side of the Ranipool river it is now a modern town and has lost ...

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Sikkim

Sikkim

Sikkim is situated to the north of Darjeeling surrounded by Tibet in the north, Bhutan in the East and Nepal in the west. Although only 100 km (63 miles) from north to south and 60 km (38 miles) from east ...

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Accommodation

Accommodation

Darjeeling has a fair range of hotels, the better ones offering lovely mountain and valley views (a prime consideration when choosing a room) and heating facilities, which are necessary in view of often chilly evenings. Insist on a room with ...

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Shopping

Shopping

The handicrafts of Darjeeling show marked influences of Tibetan, Nepalese, Sikkimese and Bhutanese art and culture. The main products are woollen blankets, hand-knitted garments and woven fabrics, also woodwork, bamboo fretwork, copper- plate curios studded with red and blue stone ...

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Trekking

Trekking

Darjeeling’s treks are short, comfortable and very scenic. The most popular trekking months are April–May for seeing the flora of the region, and October–November when you have the clearest mountain views). If you want an organised trek, complete with porter, ...

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Darjeeling Sightseeing

Darjeeling Sightseeing

Darjeeling is a large, widely-dispersed complex of steep steps, deep declines, heaped buildings and winding streets, few of which are properly sign–posted, strung out over a wide ridge like a flattened, many-tiered, wedding cake. As with Shimla, it takes days ...

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Darjeeling

Darjeeling

Ruled first by the Rajahs of Sikkim (until the start of the 18th century), then by the Gurkhas of Nepal, who invaded Sikkim in 1780, and then returned to the Rajahs by the East India Company. Darjeeling had a  chequered ...

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Nalanda

Nalanda

The ruins of the world’s earliest known university can be seen here. Founded in the 6th century BC as a suburb of the Magadha capital, Nalanda later became a great centre of learning and one of the most famous university ...

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Rajgir

Rajgir

several years of aggravation. Later, he contracted a horrible disease and, in remorse for his evil acts, converted to Buddhism and supported the First Buddhist Council, held here at Rajgir. It was convened shortly after  the Buddha’s attainment of enlightenment, and ...

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