Best Traditional Indian Darjeeling Tea Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Best Traditional Indian Darjeeling Tea Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Darjeeling tea - substantially the world-famous "champagne of teas" with substantial 19th-century origin in West Bengal hill stations - has considerable cultural-tourism heritage. Major destinations: Darjeeling and surrounding hill stations (sizable concentration of historic tea estates), Assam (significant broader Indian-tea heart), Nilgiri in southern India, plus various others. Plan a focused week with extensive Indian tea-region cultural-tourism. This is one of the world's most internationally recognized specialty-tea heritages with large cultural-tourism infrastructure including major heritage estates with ample visitor programming. Background Indian tea heritage substantially crystallized in the meaningful 19th-century British colonial period. Major sizeable milestones: 1823 : Robert Bruce substantially discovers indigenous Assa...