Lovers Meet View Point

Darjeeling, West Bengal

According to Lepcha legend, Rongnyu & Rongeet were river spirits and lovers.

  • Rongnyu (the Teesta River)
  • Rongeet (the Rangeet River)

The lovers used to meet secretly. But, when their love came to light, they offered prayers to Kongchen Konglo (Mount Kangchenjunga) and chose to leave their homeland. The lovers decided to take different routes and meet at Peshok, near Darjeeling.

Rongeet chose Tutfo, a mountain bird known for swiftness in flight, for path guidance. Rongnyu chose Paribu, a snake, to guide her. The confluence of the Teesta River & the Rangeet River is known as Triveni.

Lovers Meet View Point is the place, from where anyone can see the spot where the lovers finally met.

Peshok:

It is a village in Rangli Rangliot Community Development Block, in the Darjeeling Sadar Subdivision of Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between the hill stations of Kalimpong & Darjeeling, and famous for Triveni and tea garden & cultivation.