A tea bar has come up in Kurseong to serve
the champagne of the hills. The place is modeled after the
toy train. Chai Country, the tea bar, has started business.
`No inauguration ceremony was held there because the bar is
yet under construction but the construction will be completed
before the starting of the next tourist season,` said Jennifer
Khaling, the manager of Cochrane Place, the hotel of which
the tea bar is a part. Many tourists have already booked their
rooms over the past two months.
`We will mostly serve the Darjeeling tea
but we have other selection of Assam tea as well,` said Khaling.
She also said that the bar has everything which attracts the
tourists here. Karseong is a renowned place for Darjeeling
tea and we choose this place to set up a bar of the same quality,
said Khaling.
The tea bar Chai Country will help to promote
tourists in a large way. The main property of the hills is
Toy Train and the tea which a visitor can observe here in
Kurseong. The entrance of the bar has been decorated in the
model of the locomotive which will attract the tourists. Visitors,
once they step inside, will be served from counters that resemble
the coaches of the narrow-gauge train. The other parts of
the hotels are decorated by the antique furniture collected
from the different of the country. Even the doors and windows
are antique as are the four-poster beds in the rooms. The
hotel authority has planed to provide package tour for the
visitors to add value to the ambience of the place. The manager
of the hotel said that they have close contact in the tea
gardens of the area and most tourists want to know how the
tea processed. The visitors are also interested to visit the
tea estate and they want to see the factories of the garden.
The Princess of Thailand has also visited a tea garden during
her visit here earlier this month. Khaling informed us that
they can arrange for tourists to visit the tea garden like
Ambootia and Makaibari. Chimney Point, a famous picnic spot
and Father’s Abraham’s Farm are the other spot
which the hotel management wants to include as a tourist place.
In Kurseo9ng the other places of interest are scenic Balason
Khola, the forest museum, and the heritage schools located
in Dow Hill and St Mary’s Hill. According to the hotel
authority our new projects will make Kurseong a famous tourists
spot among the other. The tour operators are also anxious
about the place. |
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