Land Rover Cars

In celebration of the last 70 years of taming the most difficult terrains in the world, Land Rover India attempted an impossible trail drive up into the Himalayan foothills.

This story starts in tea estates in the clouds where the mighty mountains touch down in the northern part of West Bengal. This region has a famous city, Darjeeling, a hill station and tourist hotspot that perpetually hogs all the attention. Except when it comes to 4x4 aficionados and Land Rover fans. Then it’s Manybhanjang, a small city, just 26km west of Darjeeling where you need to head to. Here, a fleet of Land Rover 4x4s made in the 1950’s have helped settlers in the higher mountain passes move people and goods up the steep slopes and also promoted trade with neighbouring Nepal. One of these trails, a 30-odd kilometre pony trail from Maneybhanjang to Sandakphu on the Nepal border, is considered the toughest of routes and, as legend would have it, is only traversable in a Land Rover. Actually, that’s not quite true today, but in the 1950’s, when the Land Rovers made the first trips up the tight and twisty path, the only other transport capable of making the journey were pack animals. Today, most of the tight hairpins have been paved and even the first 15 kilometres of the trails has black top or a cement surface added in the last couple of years.... read more »

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