Agumbe Hill Station - It Is Home To Several Rare Species Of Medicinal Plants

AGUMBE HILL STATION AT SHIMOGA Agumbe is known for its scenic beauty and bio-diversity. Nestled on a plateau on top of Someshwara Ghat, it is located at a distance of 380 km from Bangalore. Situated in Shimoga district of Karnataka, Agumbe gets its sobriquet because it receives 7,640 mm of mean annual rainfall, the second highest annual rainfall in India. Agumbe is surrounded by rich biodiversity and the hill station borders...

Rishop Hill Station - It Has A Great View Of Snow Capped Himalayan Mountain Rage

RISHOP HILL STATION AT DARZELLING Rishop is a tourist village in the Lava – Lolegaon Circuit in Kalimpong sub-division. This used to be an inaccessible village with few households and step farming dependent on monsoon rain till tourists discovered this hidden treasure of Eastern Himalaya. The main attraction of staying at Rishop is the serene environment and great views of snow capped Himalayan mountain range from here. The...

Belur Math - It Is The Hub Of A Worldwide Spiritual Movement

BELUR  MATH AT HOWRAH Belur Math, sprawling over forty acres of land on the western bank of the Hooghly (Ganga), in Howrah district, an hour’s drive from Kolkata, is a place of pilgrimage for people from all over the world professing different religious faiths.  Even people not interested in religion come here for the peace it exudes It was at Belur Math that Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), the foremost disciple...