Tourism in Mirik – An Ulimate Guide for Travel in This Hill Station

Mirik is a magical hill station that is located in Darjeeling district and in very close proximity to Siliguri located in North Bengal. This peaceful hill station of Mirik is very beautiful with lots of natural beauty. The floriculture, the pine vegetation, the beautiful Sumendup lake, all makes Mirik a beautiful heaven of Earth.

ABOUT MIRIK
Mirik is a magical hill station that is located in Darjeeling district and in very close proximity to Siliguri located in North Bengal. This peaceful hill station of Mirik is very beautiful with lots of natural beauty. The floriculture, the pine vegetation, the beautiful Sumendup lake, all makes Mirik a beautiful heaven of Earth.

WHEN SHOULD YOU VISIT MIRIK ?
Mirik is basically in fine condition with a pleasant temperature throughout the year. During winters, it falls a minimum of about thirteen degrees and a maximum of thirty degrees during summers.
WHERE IS MIRIK LOCATED ?
The beautiful hill station of Mirik is located about 56 kilometres from Siliguri and 42 kilometres from Darjeeling, high at an altitude of 1,768m in the foothills of the Himalayas in the East.

WHAT ATTRACTS TOURISTS TO MIRIK ?
In this beautiful and awesome hill station of Mirik, there are lots of places that will make your experience of visit to Mirik worth.
The Sumendup lake at Mirik is the major attraction here that attracts most tourists. This Sumendup Lake is surrounded by green pine forests with a rainbow coloured and sized bridge across. Sumendup lake has lots of fishes but are not allowed to fish and this lake is not fit for swimming too.
At the west of the lake, is a holy shrine called Devi sthan dedicated to the holy hindu goddess. IF you’re pious, you should definitely visit the Devi Sthan templeYou can also visit the hanuman and shiva temple located just side of the lake. The Bokar Monastery is another place worth visiting.
The tip of the Mirik hill is Deosi Dara, from where you can see the beautiful view of Mirik, the Sumendup lake and even the hills and plains below. At Deosi dara, is the Rameetay Dara from where you can see the most beautoful sight of sun rise and sun set and even the view of Kurseong. Kawlay Dara is another place in Mirik where you can try visiting for a lovely experience of breath taking view.
While you’re on your visit in Mirik, you may try visiting Rai Dhap which is also a pinic spot. Rai Dhap is a small lake of fresh water that is potable source of drinking water.
A very good option would be a pony ride around the Sumendup lake, or the orange orchards but a ride in the tea plantations in a pony would be the best.
HOW TO REACH MIRIK ?
REACHING MIRIK BY AIR -Bagdogra is the nearest airport to Mirik, which is located near Siliguri at about 55 kilmetres from Mirik.
REACHING MIRIK BY ROAD AND BY RAIL – The New Jalpaiguri Railway Station (NJP) is the nearest railway station to Mirik which is located 60 km away from Mirik hill station resort. The road ways are excellent to Mirik connecting Mirik to Darjeeling, Kurseong, SIliguri and Kurseong.
WHERE TO STAY AND ACCOMODATE IN MIRIK ?
Accomodation in Mirik is very easily available. There are lots of options for accomodation as lots of hotels, private accomodation, tourist lodge, all are available at Mirik. You can check this for more information – Hotels for Accomodation at Mirik http://trifter.com/europe/netherlands/hotels-for-accomodation-at-mirik/

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Photo of the Day - Who shall Rescue the Rescue Boat in Mirik ?

This is the condition of Mirik and the facilities that are available to the tourists.

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Mirik Sumendup Lake Video

Beautiful "Sumendu lake" bisected by "Indreni Pull". Boating on the quaint shikaras and pony riding are enjoyable. The most amazing thing is the cloud making the sky opaque too often. The road side view is amazing on the way espatially the Tea Gardens and Pine Trees. So check this video of Mirik Sumendup Lake

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Study Abroad – This May Help You Students From North Bengal and Darjeeling Hills

Many students from the Darjeeling hills may want to study in the Uk, the USA, Australia, New Zealand for their bachelor or master level. This may help.

I am not aware of any educational consultants based in Darjeeling Hills, but hopefully you may find many. In fact, parents are the ones who will invest a lot of money to educate their kids abroad, so they are always apprehensive that some consultants will run away with their money doing nothing but promising big. Well, if you are interested to study in the UK, the best place to start is from London where you will find thousands of Nepalis studying. Most of them will be helpful in terms of room sharing, accommodation, jobs, etc.




First things first. You need to determine which course you want to pursue. Normally, the student visa is granted for students seeking degree courses, though people from Nepal and India are going for diploma courses like ACCA, IMIS, ABE, etc. To play a safe game, it is best to try for degree courses which are of 3-year durations. Degrees are awarded by universities, but it is very expensive to study in universities. They charge anything between £9,000 to £12,000 per year for international students. However, same courses can be studied elsewhere in private colleges who provide admission and tuition at much lower costs, say £3,000 per year maximum.

Actually there is no need to hire a consultant if you can try yourself. In extreme cases, there are very good consultants based in Kathmandu who take NC Rs. 20,000 for their charges and provide you College Admission Letter for visa application, other guidance, visa interview tests, etc. But they can’t do anything than that because granting a visa is dependent on VFS Global based in Delhi. They can only organise your documents. Kathmandu is far away from Kalimpong and if you cannot afford to meet a consultant, you can try yourself with little help from me.

First of all, you need to search for courses suitable to you. The visa is granted depending upon which course you are going to study and whether your high school / senior secondary school (ICSE/ISC) courses were of the similar subjects. In other words, if you have taken science in ICSE/ISC, you may want to go for computing or science or technology subjects. If you have studied commerce, you may want to study ACCA or business management courses.

There is no B.Com subjects available in UK as far as I know. It is called management. For example, check this website: http://www.holborncollege.ac.uk/. That is one of the affordable colleges, low price, high reputation. Many Indian and Nepalis study there. You can study either Business or Law only in Holborn College. Their fee is very low. Also look at http://www.greenwichcollege.co.uk/ and http://www.lahe.org.uk/. Explore all subjects, duration, fees and how to apply.


In those colleges, may be you don’t have to do IELTS. Students have to do Academic IELTS, not General IELTS and that is not so easy. Someone said IELTS can be done in Siliguri, but that is expensive. May be around IC Rs.18,000. Look into IELTS.org and see what sorts of tests are required. IELTS can also be done in Kathmandu and the cost is perpaps NC 25,000. There is no need to attend any classes though there are hundreds of institutes providing IELTS coaching. If you have IELTS scores, there is good chance of getting student visa. You can order a CD ROM from ielts.org directly by paying online or sending payment from your nearest bank. There are also many online free tests found in Internet. You only need a headphone and computer with Internet access. You can learn online.

I am not sure how much your parents can invest for your education in the UK. Whether you want to do part time work (it is allowed) or just dedicate yourself for full time study? If you have plenty of money, it is worth to study in Kingston College in the outskirts of London. Visit their website: http://www.kingston-college.ac.uk/ . I think they charge between £7,000 to £8,000 only per year but Kingston College is attached to Kingston University and they have range of courses to suit you.
The most important thing is that if you get admission in Kingston College or Kingston University, there is high probability of getting student visa because Kingston is highly reputed institution. You don’t have to pay any commission to anyone. Just look at the costs in college’s website and decide where and what you want to study. Let me know whether you want to study in low cost college or in reputable college? If you want to study business, you can try Holborn College. In private colleges, the entry is direct, just apply online or send completed application form to the college directly. But if you want to study in renowned colleges like Kingston, the admission is controlled by UCAS. See http://www.ucas.org.uk/ or ucas.org. You have to earn sufficient points in UCAS to be eligible to study in the UK. Don’t be confused because I gave you so much information.
Before taking any step for application abroad, ask yourself these questions:
1. What you want to study – diploma or degree?
2. Subject? Discipline? (Arts, Business, Forestry, Computing, Engineering, Graphics Design, Multimedia…Publishing…Journalism…Economics, social studies…)
3. Where you want to study? London? Birmingham? Leeds? Liverpool?
4. Private college or university?
5. Have you passed class XII?
Private colleges also take students in January, April and June. But in renowned colleges like Kingston, Holborn, etc. September is the starting session for which you should start processing from June.

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Beautiful Sky Photos from Mirik

Mirik is indeed a very beautiful place and here I come with another post of photographs in this blog About Mirik, where I have put beautiful photos of nature, highlighting the Sky which is taken from our place Mirik itself. I would really appreciate comments about these photographs and I would be pleased if my readers would share this with others in facebook too.

Dashain Celebration at Mirik

Dashain this year was amazing at Mirik like always though the weather was not so fine and the sunny warm weather was missing this year, still it was good to see the festive atmosphere at Mirik. The crowded market at Mirik Bazar, where people from all parts of Mirik, and other nearby areas like Okayti, Soureni, Mirik Basti, Murmah, Seeyok, Pasupati, etc , where there busy shopping for the occasion of Dusherra.

One really good thing this year 2010, was that Durga Puja was also organized at Super Market, Mirik Bazar which made the occasion of Dashain more bright and festive. This year it was cold and shivering dusherra, still I hope everyone enjoyed the Dashain celebration.

You can check my article on Phoolpati Celebration in Mirik too

Madan Tamang too was Brutally Murdered like Caesar Was

Just like the act from William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar, where Caesar was brutally murdered due to politics, so was Madan Tamang killed. Here I have a youtube video which I want to share it to all the readers of my blog, about Madan Tamang's assassination, which took place in 21st of May, 2010. Watch the video of Madan Tamang's death and please do leave a comment about how you feel.