Darjeeling Himalayan railway (Jalpaiguri to Darjeeling)
Another impressive toy train journey is the one that runs from Jalpaiguri to Darjeeling. Breathtaking, quite literally when the route takes you on a series of landscapes, altitudes and climate changes; Jalpaiguri being a plain and Darjeeling, the hill station that serves the best tea in all of India. Prepare yourself for a trip hooded by the Himalayas, through tea gardens, dense forests and if you’re lucky and the skies are clear, you can spot the magnificent Kanchenjunga. The journey takes you as close as possible to the tea pickers with baskets strapped on their heads and the smell of tea is simply mesmerizing. An interesting thing to note about this train is that it runs on narrow gauge...
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