The gateway to the hills
Siliguri's position at the base of the Himalayan foothills makes it the natural staging point for goods and services heading further up into Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Sikkim and beyond, and this gateway role shows up clearly in how pebble orders from the city are structured. A number of enquiries that originate in Siliguri are not purely for local landscaping but combine a local component with onward movement to a resort, homestay or bungalow project higher up in the hills, which means the plan for a Siliguri order often needs to account for a second, more constrained leg of transport after the material leaves the plains.
This gateway character is fairly unusual among the cities in this region and means that Siliguri enquiries benefit from an early, clear statement of the final destination, even when the invoicing or first point of contact is based in the city itself.