| Darjeeling tour - general information |
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Darjeeling is a hilltop town overlooking hills and valleys below.
Access: From Kathmandu , take the one-hour flight to Bhadrapur (the nearest Nepalese airport to Darjeeling ), drive to Kakarbhitta (Nepal-India border, 34 km), to Siliguri (36 km) and to Darjeeling (77 km, 2 hours 30 minutes). An alternate and quicker route is to hire a taxi at Bhadrapur and drive for about one and a half hours to the border town of Pashupatinagar in the north. From here, taxis are available to Darjeeling , which is merely 45 minutes away. Darjeeling is also connected by road with Sikkim (120 km) and Bhutan (about 200 km). Darjeeling town is 90 km from Bagdogra, the nearest Indian airport, where scheduled flights operate from New Delhi , Kolkata and Guwahati. The nearest railheads are Siliguri and New Jalpaiguri (88 km) which are connected to Kolkata, New Delhi , Guwahati and other major Indian cities. From Siliguri, buses, taxis and the famous toy train (8 hours) leave for Darjeeling .
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