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kolkata City Tours

kolkata City Tours

Howrah-Botanical Gardens-Belur Math-Ramakrishna Temple- Dakshineshwar-Jain Temple (morning)-Indian Museum- Nehru Children’s Museum-Victoria Memorial-Zoo (afternoon)Purely for orientation,  take one or both of the above bus (Rs75) tours. Neither is up to much: the guide’s talk is drowned out by traffic, too much ...

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Getting Around

Getting Around

Central Calcutta is a compact, congested area sprawling up along the west bank of the Hooghly River, from the Zoological Gardens in the south up to Howrah Bridge some 5 km (3 miles) north. Over the bridge are some of ...

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When To Go

When To Go

Close to the sea, and at low altitude, Calcutta suffers a lot of humidity. It is best visited November to February, though for colour, spectacle and culture come for the 3-week Durga Puja festival of September-October. But Calcuttans hold festivals ...

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kolkata

kolkata

kolkata is concentrated India—an intense, vital and overcrowded city of 11 million inhabitants. It is the country’s largest city and one of the most populous in the world Here are gathered India’s finest artists and musicians, scholars and poets, and ...

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