Matigara Bazar

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It is one of the oldest weekly hats (market place) of Darjeeling District of Bengal .In early days elephant,horse,buffalo etc were sold here.People from diffrent places even from remotest part of Nepal adjacent to Tibet boarder used come here for marketing.Douglas W. Freshfield in his classic "Round Kanchenjhangha" mentioned about this Hat. Pandit Sarat Chandra Das during his Tibet trip heard the story of this Hat from the villagers of Gunsha,Nepal in 1879.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matigara Bazar
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Coordinates:   26°43'12"N   88°23'9"E

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  • it is the biggest hat in darjeeling
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