After breakfast we assemble around 9:00 am in hotel reception. Our guide will take you to train station where the Toy Train ride starts. Darjeeling Heritage Joy ride offers 2 type of package. The regular train runs with a train pulling with Diesel engine. The heritage one is the 100 year old steam engine. Yes, we are riding in steam engine unless you have booked your reservation at the last moment. It is 2-3 hrs rides in total starting from Darjeeling Main town station and climbs up to 5 miles and reaches one of the highest railway station in India – Ghum. We get down for some time and explore the heritage station. The station also has a railway museum which is an entry free if you are riding on a Toy Train. After visiting Railway museum we will take a train and ride back to main Darjeeling town. Train start Time: 10:30 am Train End Time: 12:30 pm Toy Train Tickets included in your package cost.

We get up early morning to witness the magnificent view of sunrise. Our guide will inform you to assemble at around 3:15 am. Our cars will pick you from hotel at 3:30 am. It takes approximately 30-40 minutes to reach the sunrise point Tiger Hill.

After sunrise we visit Ghum Monastery which is in the popular name of Yiga Choeling. The monastery belongs to the Gelukpa or the Yellow Hat sect and is known for its 15 feet-high statue of the Maitreya Buddha. After the morning tour we go back to hotel for breakfast

After breakfast around 10:00am we will start for local sightseeing. We will first drive downhill and visit the most famous and old monastery of Sikkim Rumtek Monastery. The monastery, the largest in Sikkim, is home to the monks community, the place where they perform the sacred rituals and practices of the Karma Kagyu lineage. Guest can do the meditation for 30-40 mins. We spend time for approximately 2 hrs and we head back to Gangtok town for lunch.

Post lunch we will be visiting Cottage Industry and Handicraft Centre, Institute of Tibetology.

The stupa was built by Trulshik Rinpoche, head of the Nyingma order of Tibetan Buddhism in 1945. Inside this stupa, a complete set of Dorjee Phurba, Kangyur and other religious objects. Around the stupa are 108 Mani Lhakor or prayer wheels