Known as the world over as the "Queen of the Hills", Darjeeling is as unique as it is diverse. For travellers arriving from the Indian Plains, the cool climates of Darjeeling provides welcome relief and delightful eperiences around every corner. Situated at an average heights of 7000 feet above sea level, this beautiful town with its colonial charm and contemprary culture shelters in the shadows of Kanchanjunga's snow covered peaks. This magnificient mountain range, whose name measn 'The Five Treasurers of Snows' in Tibetan on acount of its five peaks, is also written as Khangchendzonga and Kanchanjunga.