Since 2015 · The Silk Route
Our Story
A home away from home since 2015
Banalata Homestay began in 2015 with a single home in Sillery Gaon, a village most maps still overlook. What started as a few rooms and a family kitchen grew, mostly by word of mouth, into a small group of homestays spread across the Silk Route region of Sikkim and the Kalimpong hills.
The idea never changed: hygienic rooms, real home-cooked food, and prices that don't punish you for travelling off the beaten path. Every stay is still run the way the first one was — by a local family who wants you to leave rested, well fed, and already planning your next trip back.
2015
Est. in Sillery Gaon
Where we are
Three corners of the Silk Route
Sillery Gaon
Where it all began in 2015 — a quiet cloud-forest village with wide-open views of the Kanchenjunga range.
Explore stays
Reshi Khola
Riverside stays on the Teesta's tributary, a slow, green valley perfect for a laid-back few days.
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Silk Route
Zuluk, Aritar, Nathang and the old trade route switchbacks — high-altitude stays for the offbeat traveller.
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Stories from the road
In our guests' own words — many of them written in Bengali, just as they sent them to us.
সিলারিগাঁওয়ের হোমস্টেতে থাকাটা সত্যিই মনে থাকার মতো অভিজ্ঞতা। ঘরদোর পরিষ্কার, খাবার একদম বাড়ির মতো, আর পরিবারটি অতিথিপরায়ণ। আবার যাব!
“রেশি খোলার ধারে দুই রাত ছিলাম। নদীর শব্দ শুনতে শুনতে ঘুম, সকালে গরম লুচি আর তরকারি — এই আতিথেয়তা ভোলার নয়।”
“Booked a 3N/4D Silk Route trip through Banalata and it was the smoothest offbeat trip we've done. Zuluk stay had the best view we've woken up to.”