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Happy Valley Tea Estate

Happy Valley Tea Estate is a tea garden in Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Happy Valley Tea Estate
Happy Valley Tea Estate · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Happy Valley Tea Estate is a tea garden in Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Established in 1854, it is Darjeeling's second oldest tea estate. Spread over 177 hectares, it is situated at a height of 2,100 metres (6,900 ft) above sea level, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of Darjeeling, and employs more than 1500 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Happy Valley Tea Estate

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

    Heritage railway between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling, India, also known as the Toy Train

    1.2 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park

    Zoological park in Darjeeling

    800 m · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mahakal temple

    Temple in West Bengal

    1 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Windamere Hotel

    Building in India

    1.2 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lloyd's Botanical Garden

    Botanical garden

    900 m · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Dhirdham Temple

    Temple in Darjeeling

    1.6 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bengal Natural History Museum

    Natural history museum in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India

    700 m · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Roy Villa

    Heritage house in Darjeeling

    500 m · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Observatory Hill

    Hill in Darjeeling, India

    1 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Karma Dorje Chyoling monastery

    Monastery in West Bengal

    1.1 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Happy Valley Tea Estate

Airports
Bagdogra (IXB), 42 km · Paro (PBH), 122 km · Xigaze Peace / Shigatse Air Base (RKZ), 275 km
Stations
Darjeeling railway station, 1.6 km
  • Siliguri → Happy Valley Tea Estate
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · ₹440–550
  • Guwahati → Happy Valley Tea Estate
    360 km · quickest by road, 7h 34m · ₹3,130–3,910
  • Kolkata → Happy Valley Tea Estate
    499 km · quickest by air, 6h 1m · ₹6,740–10,110
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Happy Valley Tea Estate

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Happy Valley Tea Estate. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe road however is rough and not paved, so trekking is the better option.
  • Get inYou can also opt for package tours conducted by India Beacons Sojourn can customize your stay and arrange for transport.
  • Get inIf you plan to trek to Rishop from Lava, the driver will take care of parking it at Lava, which you can avail on return.
  • Get inYou should trek the way from Lava and back, as the path is just 4 km amidst mountain forests.

From Wikivoyage: Rishop, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-11.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    361 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    398 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    429 km
  4. 04
    GhandrukNP

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    462 km
  5. 05
    ZiroIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    563 km

If you know how people move in Happy Valley Tea Estate – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Happy Valley Tea Estate

Happy Valley Tea Estate is 42 km from Siliguri, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.