Kalimpong — Monasteries, viewpoints & a hilltop gardenTakdah — Pine forests, orchids & the Teesta viewMirik — Tea estates, Nepal border & the lakeDarjeeling — Sunrise, toy train & the old town
Homestay & Hill Travel · Kalimpong itinerary

Wake up where the clouds break over Kanchenjunga.

A wood-and-stone homestay tucked into the tea hills above Darjeeling — and slow, hand-built day journeys through Darjeeling, Mirik, Takdah and Kalimpong.

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Kalimpong
Monasteries, viewpoints & a hilltop garden

Family-run homestay

Three rooms, one long dining table, hosts who remember your name.

Mountain literacy

Born-and-raised guides on every trek — safe, slow and story-rich.

Tea-garden access

Private tastings at first-flush estates that don't open to the public.

Curated, not packaged

We plan around your pace and the weather — not a fixed itinerary.

Our rooms

Three rooms. One quiet house.

Deluxe Valley Room

Deluxe Valley Room

₹1,600
per night

Queen bed · 2 guests

Our larger room — wood-panelled with a queen bed, hand-knitted throws and a window framing the misty pine valley.

Prayer Flag Loft

Prayer Flag Loft

₹1,200
per night

Twin beds · 2 guests

Our cosy smaller room — an attic loft under a slanted timber roof with handwoven blankets, a reading nook and prayer flags at the window.

Heritage Family Suite

Heritage Family Suite

₹1,600
per night

King + sofa bed · 4 guests

Our largest room — a heritage suite with a working fireplace, Tibetan rug and tall windows opening onto Kanchenjunga on a clear morning.

MountTea Stays cottage in pine forest
Our story

New on the ridge. Quietly the coolest stay in town.

MountTea Stays is the latest chapter on this hillside — founded by Salil Chetri with a small, hand-picked crew that runs the place like family (without the awkward dinners). Expect long conversations over chai, playlists curated by the host, and a Darjeeling itinerary built around your pace, not a brochure.

Meet Salil
Curated journeys

Walk the hills with us.

Sandakphu Sleeping Buddha Trek
TrekModerate

Sandakphu Sleeping Buddha Trek

5 days · 4 nights · from ₹18,500

Walk the Singalila ridge to Sandakphu (3,636 m) for a front-row view of four of the world's five highest peaks.

Tea Garden & Tasting Trail
Day tourCulinary

Tea Garden & Tasting Trail

1 day · guided · from ₹3,200

A slow morning through Happy Valley estate with a planter — pluck, wither, ferment and taste a flight of first-flush single estates.

Darjeeling Classic — Toy Train, Tiger Hill & Monasteries
HeritageEasy

Darjeeling Classic — Toy Train, Tiger Hill & Monasteries

3 days · 2 nights · from ₹9,800

Sunrise at Tiger Hill, a heritage toy-train ride to Ghoom, butter-tea with monks and an evening walk along Chowrasta.

Kind words

From the guest book in our dining room.

We arrived strangers and left as part of the family. The momos by the fireplace and the 5 AM Kanchenjunga wake-up call will stay with us forever.
Ananya & Rohan
Bengaluru
Pema planned a Sandakphu trek that fit our pace exactly. Beautiful little tea-houses, brilliant guides and the safest hands we could have asked for.
Mark Hollister
Edinburgh, UK
The Heritage Suite is unreal — fireplace crackling, mountains in the window, and the kindest hosts in the hills. Already booked for next October.
Priya Iyer
Mumbai

A clear morning, a hot pot of first-flush, and the whole of Kanchenjunga out your window.

Tell us when you'd like to come up. We'll plan the rest — slowly, by hand.

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