Planning a Trip? Try the Tea Gardens of Dooars

Planning your next trip but not sure where to go? If you have already visited the usual hill stations, beaches and popular tourist cities, you can try something different. The tea gardens of Dooars offer green views, long rows of tea plants, forest areas and a chance to see where your everyday cup of tea begins.

Dooars is in the northern region of West Bengal. While many people know the region for its forests and wildlife safaris, tea gardens are also a major part of the local landscape. Places such as Damdim, Malbazar and Nagrakata have large tea-growing areas. Instead of visiting one for a few minutes during sightseeing, you can make tea gardens an important part of your holiday by choosing a tea garden resort.

Why Plan a Holiday Around a Tea Garden?

Most holidays follow a similar routine. You check into a hotel, go sightseeing in the morning, visit several tourist places and return to the hotel at night. Sometimes, it is good to choose a trip where you can spend more time at one place instead of travelling throughout the day.

A tea garden holiday gives you this option. You can walk around the plantation, learn about tea and still keep enough time for sightseeing around Dooars. There is no need to fill every hour of the day with activities.

Tea also makes this kind of trip easy to relate to. For many of us in India, the day starts with chai. We drink it at home, at work, during meetings and while chatting with friends. But how often do we get a chance to see where tea actually grows? A trip to the tea gardens of Dooars can show you that side of your daily cup.

Dooars Is Not Just About Jungle Safaris

When people hear about a Dooars trip, wildlife is often the first thing that comes to mind. Gorumara National Park, Jaldapara National Park and Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary are some of the well-known places in the region. But there is much more to see beyond a jungle safari.

As you travel through Dooars, you will find tea gardens, rivers, forests and small towns along the way. Murti River is another popular place that many travellers include in their itinerary. These places make it possible to combine different kinds of activities during one holiday.

You could spend one day visiting nearby attractions and keep another day for the tea garden. This gives you enough time to see Dooars without turning the holiday into a race from one tourist spot to another.

Stay Closer to the Tea Gardens

If tea gardens are an important reason for your trip, staying at a tea garden resort in Dooars can make the holiday more interesting. Instead of travelling from a town hotel to see a plantation, you can spend more of your time around the tea-growing surroundings.

This is where Octavius Tea Resorts can become part of your trip. We have two heritage tea bungalows in Jalpaiguri district. Sylee Bungalow is located at Sylee Tea Estate in Damdim, while Nya Sylee Bungalow is located at Nya Sylee Tea Estate in Nagrakata.

Both bungalows give you a chance to spend more time around tea gardens. This means the place where you stay becomes part of your Dooars holiday instead of simply being somewhere to sleep at night.

See Where Your Cup of Tea Begins

One of the best ways to understand a tea garden is to walk through it. Guests at Octavius Tea Resorts can join guided tea garden walks covering plantation areas of more than 100 acres. You can see rows of tea bushes from close range and learn some basic facts about how tea is grown and plucked.

You can then visit a tea factory to understand what happens after the leaves are collected. For someone who has only seen finished tea in packets, this can make the journey from tea leaf to tea cup much easier to understand.

Tea tasting is another part of the stay. Guests can learn about four seasonal tea flushes and notice differences in their flavour and aroma. You do not have to be a tea expert. If you simply enjoy drinking chai, there is already something familiar to connect with.

Stay in a Heritage Tea Bungalow

Your accommodation can also become an interesting part of the trip. Sylee and Nya Sylee are colonial-era heritage bungalows that Octavius has restored and maintained for more than 20 years.

The bungalow architecture, verandahs, lawns and tea garden surroundings are quite different from a regular hotel in a busy tourist town. You have more reason to spend time around your accommodation rather than leaving early every morning and returning only at night.

There are seven rooms across the two Octavius properties, with accommodation for up to 20 guests. Nya Sylee Bungalow has three suites named Woodpecker, Cuckoo and Myna. The two properties can work for couples, families and small groups planning a Dooars holiday.

Keep Some Time for the Rest of Dooars

Choosing a tea garden resort does not mean your entire trip has to be about tea. You can keep the bungalow as your base and plan visits to other parts of Dooars according to your interests.

Wildlife areas, rivers, birdwatching spots and other local attractions can be added separately to your itinerary. These are attractions of the Dooars region and are not activities offered directly by Octavius Tea Resorts.

This gives you the freedom to plan the kind of holiday you want. You can spend one day learning about tea, another visiting nearby places and keep some time simply to enjoy the surroundings.

Getting to Dooars

For travellers coming from other parts of India, Bagdogra Airport and New Jalpaiguri Railway Station are two major travel points for reaching the region. From there, you can continue your journey by road towards Damdim, Nagrakata and other parts of Dooars.

Try to plan more than a rushed overnight visit. Keeping enough time allows you to enjoy the tea garden, visit the factory, taste different teas and see other parts of Dooars without having to hurry throughout the trip.

Make Tea Gardens Part of Your Next Trip

If you are searching for a different idea for your next holiday, consider the tea gardens of Dooars. You can see another side of West Bengal, learn where your daily tea comes from and combine the trip with forests, rivers and other places around the region.

For travellers looking for a tea garden resort, Octavius Tea Resorts offers heritage bungalow stays in both Damdim and Nagrakata. Choose Sylee Bungalow or Nya Sylee Bungalow and make the tea gardens a bigger part of your Dooars trip. Visit tearesorts.in to learn more and send your booking enquiry.