Rabindra Museum | Mangpoo | Mangpu Cinchona Platation | Rabindra Bhawan | Vlog #7 .
Mungpoo is a small village under the Kurseong Sub-division of Darjeeling district, Mungpoo (also spelled Mongpu) is specially famous for Rabindranath’s bungalow or Rabindra bhawan or Rabindra Museum is about 25 Km from Darjeeling and 54 Km from Siliguri.Mungpo is well known for its cinchona and medicinal plant cultivation. In the year 1864, the first Government Quinine factory was set up in Mungpoo and this is exactly the reason why Mungpoo is popular. However, what added to its popularity when the Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore visited the place quite often between 1938 and 1940 at the invitation ...