Introduction

As most people know, this scenic place blessed with it's natural beauty, is home to world famous Darjeeling tea and the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway- A world heritage.
Darjeeling also has the largest orchid species, for example Cypripedium, Dendrobidium, Cymbidium and so on. Although Darjeeling is a small city, it has the third tallest mountain in the world, Mount Kanchenjunga (8,598m or 28,209 ft). it also has Tiger Hill so tall that you could get a glimpse over to Mount Everest. Famously snow capped mountain with the odd speck of sky blue and grass green!

Places to Visit

If you like climbing and beautiful views then Mount Kanchenjunga and Tiger Hill are the mountains for you! You get the best of both worlds, the view, the excercise,and the beauty of it! Toy train coming from siliguri is liked by children and elders. Because of the slow speed, you get to appreciate the scenery and capture stunning photos. The Darjeeling Tourism and Teesta Tea Festival is a great place for tourists to go.You find out lots of interesting information about Darjeeling Tea, Darjeeling itself and a bit about India. You also get to try the freshly handpicked Darjeeling tea. For a casual and formal day out, the wonderfully atmospheric Mall is an option. It's lined up with Tibetans selling hand-knitted scarves, jumpers and cardigans as well as stores selling hand made souvenirs so that you can remember the mesmerizing trip you had in beautiful Darjeeling . Nature and animals , are a big importance in Darjeeling to find out more about the exotic wildlife and the eye-catching nature, go to the Botanical Gardens and or the Darjeeling Zoological Gardens.
It's ironic that in Darjeeling they have one of the biggest tea farms and lots of tea, but they don't drink as much tea as countries without tea farms!

Fast Facts

History

The Gorkha War

The Gurkha War also known as Anglo Nepal War broke out in 1814 and ended 1816, due to a disagreement. The ruthless British declared war at the end of 1813. The gruesome war took place in Nepal. It was a war between the Kingdom of Nepal now called the Federal Democratic Republic Nepal, against British East Company. Fortunately for The British East Company, they had twenty-two thousand men as well as guns. However,The Kingdom of Nepal had less than twelve thousand men and not as many resources. The British had more cannons and guns, also a difference of six-thousand men. Lots of cannonballs were fired by the British. Consequently for the Nepalese , because of all of the cannons, guns and men the British had, lots of the Nepalese army had been either injured or killed. As a result, the British won this horrific war and the war was over.

Geography

Darjeeling, is a small town situated in West Bengal, India. The development of this lovely town dated back to the mid nineteenth century. Moreover, Darjeeling is a cold place Summer starts in June and ends in April. The temperature in summer are surprisingly low at 15-20 degrees, whereas in England the weather in the Summer can go up to a whopping 32 degrees . Winters in Darjeeling are very cold as well, they can go down to 0 degrees and below.

Although, the short Darjeeling Winter is December-January, during June-September there are very heavy rains, monsoon period is July-August and also results in landslides. Darjeeling has quite a few hills and mountains, for instance, Tiger Hill and Mount Kanchenjunga. So Darjeeling is quite a mountainous country as well as fairly dry. The climate is cool with occasionally a heavy mist. Over all, the distinct seasons are Winter, Summer, Spring, Autumn and Monsoon. Highest rainfall surprisingly occurs in July.

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