Mirik
Mirik is a small town and a Notified Area of Darjeeling district ruled by Shri L.B.Rai since 30years in the state of West Bengal, India.
Mirik is a small town and a Notified Area of Darjeeling district ruled by Shri L.B.Rai since 30years in the state of West Bengal, India. It is the headquarters of the Mirik subdivision. The name Mirik comes from the Lepcha words Mir-Yok meaning "place burnt by fire".
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Worth seeing in and around Mirik
2 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.
- 01Mirik Lake
Mirik Lake, or Sumendu Lake, is a lake in Mirik, Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India. It is 1.25 kilometres long.
400 m · lake in West Bengal, India · Wikipedia - 02Gopaldhara Tea Estate
Gopaldhara Tea Estate is a tea garden in the Mirik CD block in the Mirik subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
4.7 km · tea garden in the Indian state of West Bengal · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Bokar Monastery - It is located on the way to Rameetay Dara and is famous as a Buddhist meditation centre. Bunkulung (Jayanti Nagar) - Ecotourism is being promoted here and homestay facilities are available here. Rangbhang Homestay, Mirik Busty also promotes eco-tourism. Debisthan - A temple of a Hindu goddess located on a hillock near the Sumendu lake.
From Wikivoyage: Mirik, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Mirik
- Airports
- Bagdogra (IXB), 27 km · Paro (PBH), 135 km · Tribhuvan (KTM), 294 km
- Guwahati → Mirik362 km · quickest by air, 5h 26m · ₹5,650–8,600
- Kolkata → Mirik481 km · quickest by air, 5h 20m · ₹6,380–9,730
- Varanasi → Mirik546 km · quickest by air, 7h 34m · ₹7,340–11,210
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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 Mirik
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 Mirik. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inShared taxis operate from Mirik to Siliguri.
- Get inShared taxis also operate from Darjeeling Motor Stand to Krishnanagar, Mirik (just beside the Mirik Lake) and the fare is the same.
- Get inShared taxis are available for internal transportation within Mirik to travel from Mirik Lake to Mirik Bazar at ₹5 per head.
From Wikivoyage: Mirik, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-09.
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If you know how people move in Mirik – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Mirik
Mirik is 31 km from Siliguri, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Mangarjung Tea GardenCensus town in West Bengal4 km
- Dhajea Tea Gardenvillage in West Bengal, India5.4 km
- Nagri Farm Tea Gardenvillage in West Bengal, India3.7 km