Odyssey Tours & Travels

Tour Ambootia tea factory - India's finest bio-organic tea estate

Tour Ambootia tea factory - India's finest bio-organic tea estate. The area around Darjeeling is one of the premier tea growing regions of the world and the ' Champagne of teas' is produced at Ambootia, the organic bio-dynamic tea estate It is associated with Cochrane Place, which produces some of the world's most expensive tea, sold at the likes of Harrods.

After a visit to the tea factory one can visit an ancient Shiv Mandir which is serenely situated underneath gigantic banyan and rudraksh trees.

Day walks

There are numerous short walks along leafy hillsides lined with hydrangeas and azaleas and the adjoining tea estates. Be adventuresome and embark on day-long trek through to Tiger Hill, the Balason River, Chimney or even to Mirik town.

Toy Train

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a steam railway service, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There is a daily steam engine service (since 1890) that runs from Kurseong at 1,458 m. to Darjeeling at a height of 2,134m.