Tea TourismKathmandu → Darjeeling
Arrival & Estate Welcome
Arrive at Glenburn Tea Estate or similar heritage property. Your host — often a descendant of the original planting family — welcomes you with afternoon tea and explains the estate's 150-year history. Evening walk through the tea fields as the mist rolls in from Kanchenjunga.
Darjeeling As per plan
Plucking to Cup: The Full Process
Rise at dawn to join tea pluckers in the fields, learning the 'two leaves and a bud' standard that defines quality. Follow fresh leaves to the factory to see withering (air-drying), rolling (breaking cell walls), oxidizing (chemical transformation), and firing (halting oxidation). Taste tea at each stage.
Darjeeling As per plan
Professional Tea Tasting
Learn professional tea tasting — the slurp, the swish, the spit. Evaluate liquor color, aroma, body, and astringency. Blind-taste first flush (spring), second flush (summer muscatel), autumnal, and green Darjeelings. Receive a personalized tasting journal.
Darjeeling As per plan
Workers' Village & Culture
Visit the tea workers' village to understand the human side of the industry. Meet a third-generation plucker who shares stories of estate life. Learn to cook traditional Nepali dishes using estate-grown vegetables. Evening Nepali folk music and dance.
Darjeeling As per plan
Tiger Hill Sunrise & Departure
Pre-dawn drive to Tiger Hill for sunrise over Kanchenjunga (world's third-highest peak) and, on clear days, Everest. Final tea tasting at Nathmulls, Darjeeling's oldest tea shop. Transfer to Bagdogra airport.
Darjeeling As per plan
Everything apart from the trip itself is an upsell — tick what you want.
Kathmandu → Darjeeling • 5 days • 1 traveller(s) • incl. fees
Rs 184,000
