Category: Kalimpong / Darjeeling Hills, West Bengal

Kalimpong is the Darjeeling hills at their most quietly themselves — a hill town in West Bengal’s Kalimpong district where flower markets perfume the morning air, Buddhist monasteries overlook the Teesta River valley, and the trade routes to Sikkim and Bhutan have always passed through. Less visited than Darjeeling, more genuinely unhurried, Kalimpong rewards those who come for the walking trails, the local food, the extraordinary birdlife of the Eastern Himalayan foothills, and the specific pleasure of a hill town that has maintained its character by never quite becoming famous enough to lose it.