Hotel Silver Oaks a member of Heritage Elgin Group. There can be only one word to describe this mansion that reminds one of the leisurely ways of an era not so long ago yet whose traces are difficult to come across in today's maddening headlong rush towards modernity: "idyllic". Lounging in the well-kept garden that is a riot of colour all year round, one is treated to a magnificent view. When the sky is clear, the imposing peaks of the Kanchenjunga range can be spotted past the rolling blue green hills, the bottom of one's frame of vision ablaze with blooming petunias and asters , the serrated violet edges of iris, iridescent butterflies fitting through multi-coloured azalias, drooping geraniums, proud orchids, lavender camilias.it is heaven on earth. The bracing mountain air adds to the flavours of the Darjeeling tea that you sip, sitting in one of the quaint gazebos that dot the sloping gardens of Silver Oaks.