Darjeeling, Hindistan: yıl boyunca neler var

Kalabalık — Hindistan genelinde Winter break, burayı dolduran pazarların 5 tanesinde okul tatili

• Kural

  Toy train runs and monsoon gaps

  1 Oca – 31 AraErken rezervasyonKapanışlar

  The steam joyrides to Ghum book out weeks ahead in season, and the full line from the plains is suspended for weeks at a time when the monsoon takes the track out. Check before you plan the arrival around it. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Winter quiet on the ridge (15 Ara – 20 Şub (genelde))

Ara sezon — burayı dolduran pazarların 2 tanesinde okul tatili, sıradan bir ay

• Festival

  Losar

  5 Şub – 10 Mar · geneldeAy Yeni Yılı

  The Tibetan and Sherpa new year is marked at the Ghoom and Bhutia Busty monasteries with masked dances and a week of family visiting. Quiet compared to the town's Hindu festivals, and in the empty part of the year. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Toy train runs and monsoon gaps (1 Oca – 31 Ara), Winter quiet on the ridge (15 Ara – 20 Şub (genelde))

Sakin — burayı dolduran pazarların 2 tanesinde okul tatili, hava açısından en kötü aylarından biri

• Doğa

  First flush tea

  10 Mar – 30 Nis · geneldeHasat

  The first plucking after the winter dormancy, from about the third week of March, is the year's most valuable tea and the estates run tours and tastings around it. Rooms in the garden bungalows go early.

• Doğa

  Rhododendron and magnolia

  15 Mar – 30 Nis · geneldeKır çiçekleri ve çiçeklenme

  The ridge above Ghoom and the Singalila road towards Sandakphu flower through spring, magnolia first and rhododendron behind it. It is also the second-clearest stretch for the mountain.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Toy train runs and monsoon gaps (1 Oca – 31 Ara), Losar (5 Şub – 10 Mar (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Hill-station summer season, Hindistan genelinde Summer vacation (Kerala / far south)

• Sezon

  Hill-station summer season

  15 Nis – 15 Haz · geneldeOkul tatilleriKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  Kolkata and the plains come up to escape the heat and the Mall, the toy train and the Tiger Hill jeeps are all booked out. Prices peak here rather than in autumn, and the mountain is often hazed over anyway.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Toy train runs and monsoon gaps (1 Oca – 31 Ara), First flush tea (10 Mar – 30 Nis (genelde)), Rhododendron and magnolia (15 Mar – 30 Nis (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — gezginler burayı yüksek sezon olarak anlatıyor, Hill-station summer season

• Doğa

  Second flush tea

  1 May – 20 Haz · geneldeHasat

  The muscatel picking, and the one the auction houses actually pay for. The gardens run tours in the same weeks, and it is worth going out to one rather than buying on Mall Road. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Toy train runs and monsoon gaps (1 Oca – 31 Ara), Hill-station summer season (15 Nis – 15 Haz (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Hill-station summer season, Hindistan genelinde Summer vacation (north & east)

• Risk

  Monsoon and landslide season

  15 Haz – 20 Eyl · geneldeKapanışlar

  The eastern Himalaya takes some of the heaviest rain in India, and slips regularly close NH-10 up from Siliguri and the Rohini road, sometimes for days. The town keeps working; getting to it is the problem. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Toy train runs and monsoon gaps (1 Oca – 31 Ara), Hill-station summer season (15 Nis – 15 Haz (genelde)), Second flush tea (1 May – 20 Haz (genelde))

Sakin — burayı dolduran pazarların 5 tanesinde okul tatili, hava açısından en kötü aylarından biri

Temmuz ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Toy train runs and monsoon gaps (1 Oca – 31 Ara), Monsoon and landslide season (15 Haz – 20 Eyl (genelde))

Ara sezon — burayı dolduran pazarların 4 tanesinde okul tatili, sıradan bir ay

Ağustos ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Toy train runs and monsoon gaps (1 Oca – 31 Ara), Monsoon and landslide season (15 Haz – 20 Eyl (genelde))

Kalabalık — Durga Puja and Dashain, burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili

• Tatil

  Durga Puja and Dashain

  25 Eyl – 25 Eki · geneldeOkul tatilleriKalabalıkErken rezervasyonKapanışlar

  Bengal's biggest holiday and the Nepali Dashain fall together, and the whole of Kolkata seems to come up the hill. It is the busiest fortnight of the Darjeeling year and the one to book months ahead. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Toy train runs and monsoon gaps (1 Oca – 31 Ara), Monsoon and landslide season (15 Haz – 20 Eyl (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Durga Puja and Dashain, Tiger Hill sunrise queue

• Sezon

  Tiger Hill sunrise queue

  10 Eki – 10 Ara · geneldeGünübirlikçi baskınıKalabalık

  The clear autumn weeks are when everyone drives up before dawn for the Kanchenjunga sunrise, and cars queue nose to tail on the single hill road in the dark to reach the viewpoint for first light. Kaynak ↗

• Sezon

  Clear season for Kanchenjunga

  15 Eki – 10 Ara · geneldeKurak sezon

  The weeks after the monsoon clears are the most reliable of the year for the mountain: cold, dry mornings, Tiger Hill sunrises that actually deliver, and the Singalila trek at its best.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Toy train runs and monsoon gaps (1 Oca – 31 Ara), Durga Puja and Dashain (25 Eyl – 25 Eki (genelde))

Kalabalık — Tiger Hill sunrise queue

Kasım ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Toy train runs and monsoon gaps (1 Oca – 31 Ara), Tiger Hill sunrise queue (10 Eki – 10 Ara (genelde)), Clear season for Kanchenjunga (15 Eki – 10 Ara (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Tiger Hill sunrise queue, Hindistan genelinde Winter break

• Sezon

  Winter quiet on the ridge

  15 Ara – 20 Şub · geneldeSezon dışı kapanış

  Cold, dry and largely empty; the hotels heat with a bar fire and a bucket of hot water, and half of Chowrasta is shut. The mountain views are the best of the year on the days it is clear. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Toy train runs and monsoon gaps (1 Oca – 31 Ara), Tiger Hill sunrise queue (10 Eki – 10 Ara (genelde)), Clear season for Kanchenjunga (15 Eki – 10 Ara (genelde))