Glenmist Tea Estate Homestay
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When Kanchenjunga shows itself
The third-highest mountain on earth fills the view from our verandah, when the clouds allow. Here is when to come, and when to set the alarm.
The first flush, and why we still pluck it by hand
Every March the bushes wake after winter and give us the most delicate tea of the year. Here is how a morning's pluck becomes the cup at your breakfast.
A morning in the tasting room
Twelve white cups, a set of scales and a spittoon: what happens when we taste the estate's teas, and how you can join in.
Winter at the family table
Smoked pork with bamboo shoot, gundruk soup, luchi on Sunday mornings and the plum cake that comes out every December: the season's cooking at Glenmist.
By toy train to Ghum
The little blue steam train has been climbing these hills since 1881. Our favourite way to spend a day off the estate.