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Ghum Monastery

An 1850 Tibetan Buddhist monastery with a 5 m Maitreya Buddha, beside the railway's highest station.

Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0
Price
Free
Time Needed
30 minutes
Address
Yiga Choeling Monastery, Ghum, Darjeeling, West Bengal 734102Directions
Getting There
Near Ghum Station.

Why Go

Its old murals and prayer wheels make a calm stop after the toy train.

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