Home to two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhinoceroses, in grasslands and wetlands by the Brahmaputra River in Assam, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You'll also see wild elephants, water buffalo, swamp deer and often tigers.
Jeep safaris run in the central, western and eastern ranges. The park is open roughly November to April. It's about 4 hours from Guwahati.
A glacial lake at 3,753 m on the road from Gangtok towards the Nathu La pass on the Tibet border.
The largest monastery in Sikkim and the main seat in exile of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.
A hilltop 11 km from Darjeeling, at 2,590 m, famous for the view at sunrise as the first light turns the snowy summit of Kangchenjunga, the world's t…
Stay in any of Darjeeling's cheap guesthouses, but treat yourself to tea in one of the old colonial hotels.
A narrow-gauge mountain railway, opened in 1881, that winds up from the plains to Darjeeling on tracks only 2 feet wide, through loops and zigzags, a…
One of Darjeeling's oldest tea gardens, founded in 1854, on the hillside just below the town.
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