Mukhia's Homestay, A Home while you travel
Nestled in the sleepy little village in Mungpoo, Darjeeling, Mukhia Homestay offers its guests a Home amidst the mountains, Hills and clouds providing a picturesque location for you and and your family to stay in. This Homestay is run by a family who wishes to have friends coming from different parts of the country and the world a chance to bask in the beauty of the hills and the serenity of the nature that you find in abundance here. Located at an altitude of 3700 feet, Mungpoo offers you a pleasant weather during the summers.
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| Mukhia Homestay |
Situated at just 90 minutes drive from Siliguri, which is the nearest railway and airport centre, Mungpoo is located ideally as it is also just an hour's drive away from Darjeeling and Kalimpong which are the most favoured tourists. Mungpoo is dotted with plantations, lovely valleys and meadows and the sight of the majestic Khangchendzonga in the morning from a view- point just 10 minutes away from Mukhia Homestay is beautiful and breath- taking. It also offers you a chance to see the local lifestyle of people living in the hills of Darjeeling.
Facilities offered at Mukhia Homestay:
We offer you cozy rooms with comfortable beds and other facilities like well- furnished bathrooms, verendah, reading room, a comfortable sitting area in the out over- looking the beautiful hills, meadows and valleys.
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| Room with Bed |
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| View of the Bed |
We also offer you a cozy reading room for those interested in books.
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| Reading Room |
Fooding:
The food offered in this place is procured locally which is organically grown in by the farmers in the area.
Rates:
For 1 night stay with Morning tea, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner we charge you Rs.1800/- per person only.
For more details contact : +919609982870 (Hindi, Nepali), +919609850661 (English, Hindi, Nepali)
Other services:
We arrange tours of Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Sikkim.
Places of interest in Mungpoo:
Cinchona Plantation: Mungpoo is well known for Cinchona plantation which is used for extraction of Quinine and other medicinal herbs. As you wind up towards Mungpoo you would see the barks of Cinchona dotting the hills. The first such Cinchona plantation began in 1984 in Mungpoo.
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| Cinchona Drying Plant |
Rabindra Bhawan: Mungpoo also shares the pride of being the Summer Retreat of Rabindra Nath Tagore, a great poet and a Nobel Laureate.
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| Rabindra Bhawan |
It is in this place where he wrote his critically acclaimed poem "Janmadin." In the summers of 1938- 1940 Rabindranath Tagore visited this place 4 times. This place has now been converted as a Museum and houses some of his items like his Mahogany Desk, Bed etc.
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| Tagore's Mahogany Desk |
Quinine Factory: Another must in this place would be the Quinine factory run by the government which demonstrates the process of extraction of Quinine from Cinchona.
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| Govt. Cinchona Factory |
