This holiday season, Bengal tourists make little-known places in backyard their destination

Move on, Darjeeling and Digha. Here come Lepchajagat and Baguran and many other places — unknown to the outside world so far but word about their charm spreading word of mouth. This holiday season saw a large number of people from West Bengal — a place crazy about travel — choosing little-known scenic places in their own backyard rather than well-known destinations, thus setting off a new trend. For example, many people are now headed in the direction of Darjeeling but they do not join the crowds there; instead they stop about 14 km ahead in a village called Lepchajagat, where the view of the snow-capped Himalayas is as spectacular if not more. “It is basically a village of some…