📍 Tea Garden📍 Nature📍 Educational

Happy Valley Tea Estate

Darjeeling, West Bengal, India

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Overview

Darjeeling's second-oldest garden (1854), tumbling down slopes below town, with factory tours ending in a proper first-flush tasting.

Why visit: See the champagne of teas made, from pluck to cup.

Things to do

›Factory tour
›First-flush tasting
›Walk the plucking slopes

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Travel Information

Best time

Mar–Nov (plucking season)

Entry fee

Tour ~₹100

Est. budget

₹200–600

Duration

2 hrs

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