2. Top 5 places in
Darjeeling
1. Batasia Loop
2. Peace Pagoda
3. Happy Valley Tea
Estate
4. Tiger Hill ·
5. Ghoom Monastery.
3. Batasia Loop
Batasia Loo
Batasia Loop
The Batasia Loop is a spiral railway
created to lower the gradient of ascent
of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
in Darjeeling district of West Bengal,
India. At this point, the track spirals
around over itself through a tunnel and
over a hilltop. It was commissioned in
1919.
4. PeacePagoda, Darjeeling or Darjeeling Peace
Pagoda is one of the Peace Pagodas designed
to provide a focus for people of all races and
creeds to help unite them in their search for
world peace. ... The foundation stone of the
pagoda was laid on 3 November 1972 by
Nichidatsu Fujii, and was inaugurated on 1
November 1992.
5. Happy Valley Tea Estate is a tea garden in Darjeeling district in
the Indian state of West Bengal. Established in 1854, it is Darjeeling's second
oldest tea estate. Spread over 177 hectares (440 acres), it is situated at a
height of 2,100 metres (6,900 ft) above sea level, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north
of Darjeeling, and employs more than 1500 people.
6. Lying at an altitude of 2590 meters and a distance of 13 kilometres away
from the Darjeeling, Tiger Hill is most famous for its splendid sights of
sunrise from where you can see the peaks of Kanchenjunga illuminate
before the sun is seen at lower elevations.
7. Old Ghoom Monastery is the popular name of Yiga Choeling. The monastery
belongs to the Gelukpa or the Yellow Hat sect and is known for its 15 feet (4.6
m)-high statue of the Maitreya Buddha.
