Aansham Kutir Homestay: Your Gateway to the Tea Gardens of Temi, Sikkim

Aansham Kutir Homestay in Temi is nestled at the foothills of an organic Tea garden in Sikkim. This homestay gives you a perfect staying-over experience and nature embracing, wherein you can enjoy great hospitality with home-cooked mouth-watering organic food. It is more of a farm stay where you can experience a variety of agricultural fields ranging from cardamom to orchards of seasonal fruits to seasonal organic vegetables grown in the field along with dairy to support organic culture. Surrounded by the scenic beauty where half of the Khangchendzonga range can be seen from the lawn on the western side, on the Northern side Chorten Nayuma range bordering Tibet. You can also see the Nathula border. It is famous for birds, and butterflies, especially during the breeding season (March to May) when you wake up on a bird's call adjoining the patch of forest nearby the homestay. 

The tea garden is located at a distance of 10 minutes on foot from the homestay. You will get a better view with a 10-minute ride in a vehicle to a higher place for a better view.

Places to visit from homestay:

Walk to the organic Teagarden and visit the factory and experience the processing of tea. 

Enjoy Jip lining, Paragliding (depending on the weather) and cycling on hire in the Teagarden.

Trek to Thangsing Monastery on the Eastern side. This includes a walk into the village lives to see the traditional hill cultures,  

Pabong Reserve Forest to reach Thangsing Monastery. 

Trek to Tendong Reserve Forest by vehicle for a 20-minute ride to Damthanh and start a trek to Tendong from there. This is one of the most gentle treks to a pristine forest of oak and bamboo thickets. The bamboo thickets are the perfect habitat for Red Pandas, Satyr tragopan and many endangered plants and animals. This takes 3 hrs to reach Tendong from where you get 360 views of the Khangchendzonga range, Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and Siliguri if the weather is clear. 

While coming back guests can have the option to walk back from Tendong to homestay via Damthang and Tea garden or else they can board a vehicle from Damthang back to homestay. Walk around the village. Experience terrace farming. 

Sightseeing Arrangements

• NAMCHI ( Chardam, Ropeway, Sai Mandir and Guru Padmasambhava statue on the hill of Samdruptse Namchi: 
• Ravangla-Buddha Park
• Cho Dzo Lake: Pelling and Rabdentse Birdpark and back to the homestay.