Darjeeling is a famous hill station in the northernmost region of West Bengal, India, located in the Eastern Himalayas at an average elevation of 2,045 meters (6,709 feet). Known as the "Queen of the Hills",
Gangtok is the capital of the mountainous northern Indian state of Sikkim. Established as a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the 1840s, the city became capital of an independent monarchy after British rule ended, but joined India in 1975.
Pelling is a small town in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim, at the foothills of Mount Khangchendzonga. The late-17th-century Buddhist Sanga Choling Monastery has mountain views.