West Bengal.

“From Himalayan tea gardens to the tiger mangroves”

The eastern gateway — Kolkata's colonial heritage, the Sundarbans tiger-mangroves, and the Darjeeling–Kalimpong hill belt. Darjeeling's toy train (UNESCO) and Tiger Hill sunrise; Kalimpong's Buddhist monasteries and old-British schools; Shantiniketan is Tagore's open-air university; the Sundarbans hold the world's only mangrove tigers. Kolkata's Durga Puja was inscribed by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2021. The state borders Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh. 6 destinations across the state.

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Kalimpong

4.0/10

Nursery capital of India

easy·1,247m·👶 8.0/10·♀8.0/10

Siliguri

4.0/10

Chicken Neck gateway to the Northeast

easy·122m·👶 8.0/10·♀6.0/10

Darjeeling

2.0/10

The Queen of Hills — toy train, tea gardens, and Kanchenjunga sunrise. Colonial-era charm meets Tibetan-Nepali street culture.

easy·2,042m·👶 8.0/10·♀8.0/10

Kolkata

2.0/10

India's cultural capital — where the trams still run, the Puja pandals rewrite themselves every October, and College Street's coffee-house conversations haven't ended since 1940.

easy·9m·👶 10.0/10·♀8.0/10

Shantiniketan

2.0/10

Rabindranath Tagore's university town

easy·56m·👶 8.0/10·♀8.0/10

Sundarbans

2.0/10

Largest mangrove forest on Earth

moderate0·👶 4.0/10·♀6.0/10