Darjeeling, Sikkim and Calcutta Uncovered

Visiting: India

Darjeeling, Sikkim and Calcutta Uncovered

The Sikkimese and Gurka people around Karmi Farm will make youre stay here one or your best ever travel experiences. Staying at the regal Mount Pandim Hotel under Kanchenjunga is one of life’s real luxuries, which then really contrasts with the buzz and chaos of Calcutta. Wake up to stunning Himalayan vistas in Darjeeling and Sikkim, enjoy exhilarating mountain walks from your doorstep, relax in the unique welcoming atmosphere of Karmi Farm, soak up the colonial ambience of the exquisite Mount Pandim Hotel, explore chaotic Delhi and Calcutta

The Sikkimese and Gurka people around Karmi Farm will make youre stay here one or your best ever travel experiences. Staying at the regal Mount Pandim Hotel under Kanchenjunga is one of life’s real luxuries, which then really contrasts with the buzz and chaos of Calcutta. Wake up to stunning Himalayan vistas in Darjeeling and Sikkim, enjoy exhilarating mountain walks from your doorstep, relax in the unique welcoming atmosphere of Karmi Farm, soak up the colonial ambience of the exquisite Mount Pandim Hotel, explore chaotic Delhi and Calcutta

Free day in Delhi To explore.  Meeting at the Joining Hotel at 18.00.

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Transfer to delhi airport and fly from Delhi to Bagdogra, join our jeeps and start the stunning drive into the Darjeeling mountains. We pass through small villages and towns, following the toy train whose tracks we drive on and stopping at a traditional “roadhouse/station” for chai, coffee and cakes with great views. In Darjeeling we stay in a charming, small secluded guesthouse run by a local family. It is perfectly located away from the noise, but only a short walk from the central square with stunning views over the valleys to the mountains beyond.

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A city tour and a half day toy train trip along the most spectacular bit of the railway.  This is a great town for shopping and has wonderful views of the surrounding hills, tea plantations and mountains.

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A city tour and a half day toy train trip along the most spectacular bit of the railway.  This is a great town for shopping and has wonderful views of the surrounding hills, tea plantations and mountains.

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Karmi Farm Homestay After breakfast we leave for our homestay at Karmi Farm and meet up with our host, Andrew Fulger, the grandson of the local Rajah. The next three days are spent on guided treks around the nearby hills, visiting local communities, Buddhist monasteries, schools, farms and perhaps watching a football or netball match in a high forest clearing. One day we will hike into the cloud forest and another day trek down into the rice paddies. We will drink tea and eat cake, make toast on the ‘Darjeeling AGA’, and sip gin and tonics as the sun sets on the stunning hillsides that surround us on all sides. Andrew is a perfect host and his knowledge of the area is intimate. In the evenings we sit around his dining room table and eat the fine food made by Sanje, the Gurka cook.

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Karmi Farm Homestay After breakfast we leave for our homestay at Karmi Farm and meet up with our host, Andrew Fulger, the grandson of the local Rajah. The next three days are spent on guided treks around the nearby hills, visiting local communities, Buddhist monasteries, schools, farms and perhaps watching a football or netball match in a high forest clearing. One day we will hike into the cloud forest and another day trek down into the rice paddies. We will drink tea and eat cake, make toast on the ‘Darjeeling AGA’, and sip gin and tonics as the sun sets on the stunning hillsides that surround us on all sides. Andrew is a perfect host and his knowledge of the area is intimate. In the evenings we sit around his dining room table and eat the fine food made by Sanje, the Gurka cook.

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Karmi Farm Homestay After breakfast we leave for our homestay at Karmi Farm and meet up with our host, Andrew Fulger, the grandson of the local Rajah. The next three days are spent on guided treks around the nearby hills, visiting local communities, Buddhist monasteries, schools, farms and perhaps watching a football or netball match in a high forest clearing. One day we will hike into the cloud forest and another day trek down into the rice paddies. We will drink tea and eat cake, make toast on the ‘Darjeeling AGA’, and sip gin and tonics as the sun sets on the stunning hillsides that surround us on all sides. Andrew is a perfect host and his knowledge of the area is intimate. In the evenings we sit around his dining room table and eat the fine food made by Sanje, the Gurka cook.

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Karmi Farm Homestay After breakfast we leave for our homestay at Karmi Farm and meet up with our host, Andrew Fulger, the grandson of the local Rajah. The next three days are spent on guided treks around the nearby hills, visiting local communities, Buddhist monasteries, schools, farms and perhaps watching a football or netball match in a high forest clearing. One day we will hike into the cloud forest and another day trek down into the rice paddies. We will drink tea and eat cake, make toast on the ‘Darjeeling AGA’, and sip gin and tonics as the sun sets on the stunning hillsides that surround us on all sides. Andrew is a perfect host and his knowledge of the area is intimate. In the evenings we sit around his dining room table and eat the fine food made by Sanje, the Gurka cook.

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Pelling (Sikkim) We now leave Darjeeling and drive higher into the mountains into Sikkim on a hair-raisingly spectacular drive to the foot of Mt. Kanchenjunga and the elegant splendour of Mount Pandim Hotel in Pelling. This is an old Rajah’s palace and the hotel is as much an experience as the views themselves. We will explore a very beautiful local monastery.

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Pelling (Sikkim) We now leave Darjeeling and drive higher into the mountains into Sikkim on a hair-raisingly spectacular drive to the foot of Mt. Kanchenjunga and the elegant splendour of Mount Pandim Hotel in Pelling. This is an old Rajah’s palace and the hotel is as much an experience as the views themselves. We will explore a very beautiful local monastery.

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We drive back down through the foothills of the Himalayas, through stunning mountains and into the plains of northern India to the airport at Bagdogra for a short flight to Calcutta.  In Calcutta we stay in a centrally located tourist class hotel.

Breakfast, Dinner

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Calcutta is awesome, a city once visited, never forgotten, India at its most Indian.

On Day 12 we will enjoy a city tour from our city centre hotel and dont forget to visit the amazing New Market to snap up some bargains. 

Day 13: Our tour ends after breakfast.

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Calcutta is awesome, a city once visited, never forgotten, India at its most Indian.

On Day 12 we will enjoy a city tour from our city centre hotel and dont forget to visit the amazing New Market to snap up some bargains. 

Day 13: Our tour ends after breakfast.

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Key: (B) = Breakfast, (L) = Lunch, (D) = Dinner