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Dooars Tea Gardens|Dooars Tea Garden Stay|Dooars Forest stay|Dooars Elephant Safari with Tribal dance|Samsing|Dooars monsoon|Monsoon Dooars tour package
Covers:: Gorumara National Park, Samsing, Sunthalekhola, Fagu
Tea Estate, Lava, Dello along with Elephant safari
Day 1: New Mal Junction to
Lataguri. Excursion to Samsing Sunthalekhola in the afternoon
Upon arrival at the New Mal junction railway station/airport, you are received and driven to your hotel/resort at Lataguri. This place is close to the Garumara National Park. We prefer to put up our guests in hotels/resorts whose location gives you the feeling of being either in the forest or in a tea garden.
After lunch, we take you for an excursion to Samsing & Sunthalekhola.
Samsing is a Dooars tea estate, encircling which, a small locality of about 100 houses has grown around. On the top of the hill there is a beautiful Guesthouse. The silence of the place is disturbed only by the noise of the gurgling river Murti, which flows about half a kilometer below. The drive to Samsing is through lush green Dooars Tea Gardens and the descending mist on the tea gardens during the monsoons is a sight to behold. It is a great spot to watch birds as well.
Suntalekhola or Suntaley Khola (also Suntaleykhola) is a small village and a tourist spot in the Darjeeling District of West Bengal. The altitude of the place ranges from 650 to 950 m. It gets its name from a small stream: Suntaley Khola. In Nepali, Suntaley means orange and khola means stream. This place is nearly 5 km from Samsing. The green patch on the left side of the way to Suntalekhola is amazing and holds many rarities of birds and butterflies. There is a small hanging bridge just before the WBFDC accommodation.
Overnight at Lataguri Hotel/resort.
Breakfast (No) Lunch (Yes) Dinner (Yes)
Day 2: Transfer to Kalipur
or Rhino Camp/Dhupjhora Elephant camp and rest of the day is at leisure
Checkout after breakfast and depending upon prior booking, you would be driven to the Forest Department’s accommodation either at Kalipur Eco-Cottage (WBFDC Property) or Dhupjhora Elephant Camp (WBFDC Property).
Activities at Kalipur Eco-cottage:
Enjoy the Dooars Elephant Safari with Tribal dance in the evening during your stay here. If you are at Kalipur, in the evening, you can enjoy the bullock cart ride and visit the Medhla Watch tower. Watch wild animals from the Medhla watch tower and return at evening. Thereafter, enjoy an evening of tribal dance.
Dhupjhora Elephant Camp:
Accommodation is available in a few cottages but the tree house (named Teesta) popularly known as Gachbari is the one that attracts one the most. The rooms are equipped with attached bathrooms but without geysers. However hot water is provided to your room on request.
Activities at Dhupjhora Elephant Camp:
Elephant Captivity management where you can see and enjoy giving elephants a bath, Elephant joy ride and Folk dance in the evening.
Overnight at Kalipur Eco Cottage/Rhino Camp.
Breakfast (Yes) Lunch (Yes) Dinner (Yes)
Day 3: Elephant safari and transfer
to Fagu Tea Estate.
Early in the morning, enjoy an Elephant safari. Thereafter, check-out from the forest
accommodation and drive straight for the unique experience of a Dooars Tea
Garden stay. Even before you reach the Bungalow, the drive through the tea gardens
of Gorubathan is soothing to the eyes.
Enjoying the monsoon shower sweeping across miles of tea
gardens from a hundred-year old Heritage British Tea garden Bungalow located on
a hilltop with breath-taking views of the splendid Himalayas in the background and
a cup of simmering Darjeeling Tea is the ultimate Monsoon Mania, enough to revive the memories of the British raj.
Well
that is the Fagu Tea Estate, in a single sentence,
your sojourn, for a rendezvous
in the monsoons with the memoirs of the British Raj.
An activity that can be clubbed with your stay at the Fagu Tea Estate is a guided tour to a Tea Factory where one can watch and participate
in the process of tea making that involves tea plucking, tea processing and tea
tasting.
Other activities include riverside picnic and
various trekking and hiking exploration trips to nearby reserve forest areas,
mountain top villages and waterfalls, but it all
depends upon the length of time you have in hand. Bird watching is also a popular activity here with a variety of
exotic bird species that thrive in this region.
Overnight at Fagu Tea Estate.
Breakfast (Yes) Lunch (Yes) Dinner (Yes)
Day 4: Drop to NJP via Lava and Dello.
After breakfast, we start for the last leg of our journey to NJP. On the way visit the Lava monastery as well as Dello.
Situated at an altitude of 7,016 feet (2,138 m), Lava is a small hamlet 34 kilometres east of the town of Kalimpong via Algarah in Darjeeling district. It is one of the few places in West Bengal to receive snow in winter. The route to Lava is scenic with the change in vegetation from tropical deciduous to the wet alpine trees of fir, pine and birch. Lava is also famous for the Kagyu Thekchen Ling monastery, more commonly called the Lava monastery.
Dello, also known as Deolo or Deolo Hill, is a large plateau with landscaped open lawns and pine and conifers around its edges and a beautiful well maintained lawn and garden. At a height of 1914m and only 6km away from Kalimpong, Dello is a perfect getaway amidst the majestic mountains for tourists who can enjoy the picturesque landscape overlooking the Teesta valley from the edge of a ridge.
The sight of the beautiful meandering Teesta, the Teesta Valley on one side, the Sikkim hills on the other and the Kalimpong town itself with the Kanchendzonga above, all in a single picture frame. presents an awe inspiring spectacle.
Have lunch at a wayside inn (Own Cost) and thereafter, drop to airport/railway station for onward journey. Your Dooars sojourn ends with sweet memories of the Forests, the Hills and the Tea Gardens.
Breakfast (Yes) Lunch (No) Dinner (No)
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