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Pokhriabong

Pokhriabong is a village in the Jorebunglow Sukhiapokri CD block in the Darjeeling Sadar subdivision of the Darjeeling district in West Bengal, India.

Pokhriabong
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The place

Pokhriabong is a village in the Jorebunglow Sukhiapokri CD block in the Darjeeling Sadar subdivision of the Darjeeling district in West Bengal, India.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pokhriabong

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.

  1. 01
    Ghum

    Ghum is a small hilly neighbourhood in the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region of West Bengal, India. It comes under ward number one of the Darjeeling Municipality.

    5.9 km · small hilly locality in the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region of West Bengal, India. · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Gopaldhara 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.

    4.6 km · tea garden in the Indian state of West Bengal · 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 Pokhriabong

Airports
Bagdogra (IXB), 34 km · Paro (PBH), 132 km · Xigaze Peace / Shigatse Air Base (RKZ), 287 km
  • Guwahati → Pokhriabong
    365 km · quickest by air, 5h 44m · ₹5,890–8,830
  • Kolkata → Pokhriabong
    488 km · quickest by air, 5h 38m · ₹6,620–9,960
  • Varanasi → Pokhriabong
    547 km · quickest by air, 7h 52m · ₹7,580–11,440
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pokhriabong

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 Pokhriabong. 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

    371 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    400 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    431 km
  4. 04
    GhandrukNP

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    459 km
  5. 05
    ZiroIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    573 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pokhriabong

Pokhriabong is 37 km from Siliguri, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.