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 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.
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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.
- 01Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
Heritage railway between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling, India, also known as the Toy Train
1.2 km · Wikipedia - 02
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- 07Bengal Natural History Museum
Natural history museum in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
700 m · Wikipedia - 08
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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.
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 Estate42 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · ₹440–550
- Guwahati → Happy Valley Tea Estate360 km · quickest by road, 7h 34m · ₹3,130–3,910
- Kolkata → Happy Valley Tea Estate499 km · quickest by air, 6h 1m · ₹6,740–10,110
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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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.
- DarjeelingCity in West Bengal, India1.7 km
- Darjeeling districtdistrict in West Bengal, India1.7 km
- Puttabong (Tukvar) Tea Estatehuman settlement1.7 km
- Singtam Tea GardenCensus town in West Bengal3.5 km
- Lebongvalley in Darjeeling district, India2.1 km
- Darjeeling Municipalitymunicipality in West Bengal, India1.5 km