visit india: November 2007

India is a subcontinent and varies climate place to place. India's old name is BHARAT.Now we discuss about some Metropolitan cities in India .

KOLKATA: A land that has produced great scholars, thinkers and revolutionaries - Kolkata was where the first Indian currency and Indian official newspaper were printed.

Rabindra Setu (Howrah Bridge),

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Victoria Memorial Hall

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Belur Math

HOOGHLY RIVER

The name Kolkata originates from the place Kalighat - the shores of River Ganges that supports an ancient Kali Temple.

See the information of Kolkata

Area : 27,244 sq.kms.

Population: 45,80,544.

Main Languages:Bengali, Hindi, English.

STD Codes : 033.

Temparatures :42 ° C Max12 ° C Min.

Best Season : Between November to February.

Visiting places in the city:

short visit to Indian Museum, Victoria Memorial Hall, Jain Temple, Belur Math, Mother Teresa's Home, Kali Temple, Botanical Garden, Marble palace, Science City, China Town, Sahid Minar, Birla Planetarium, Rabindra Setu (Howrah Bridge), Vidyasagar Setu (Second Hooghly Bridge), Fort William, Nakhoda Mosque, Nicco Park, Metro Rail will make you more closer to this living city.

Tour colonial structures and shop for souvenirs on Kolkata tours with Destination India Tourism packages. See the Victoria Memorial, take in the beauty of Rabindra Sarovar and enjoy artistic remnants from the medieval era as you tour the Birla Academy of Art and see the Writer's Building, Shahid Minar and Raj Bhawan on Kolkata tours in West Bengal, India

1. Botonical garden:On the west bank of Hooghly, south of Howrah, are extensive botonical gardens Prime attraction in the garden is the 200year old Banyan tree, claimed to be the largest in the world.The Gardens are at Sibpur and can be reached by crossing the bridge, 19km from Chowringhee. The Gardens are openfrom sunrise to sun set.

2.Indian museum:Located in the corner of Sudder street and Chowranghee and it was built in 1875 and one of the best museum in Asia. Its widely varied collection includes oddities such as a whole roomful of meteorites. Other exhibits useful fossils,stuffed animals , skeletons and so on, including a number of fossil skeletons of prehistoric animals. These includes giant crocodiles and an amazingly big tortoise.Monday is holiday for the museum. Opens 10.00am to 5.00pm.

3. Nicco Park :Nicco Park is situated at Salt Lake. This is the Disneyland of West Bengal, with a variety of unusual games and rides.

4. Science City :It is located on Kolkata's Eastern Metropolitan Bypass. This 21st century marvel of science, communication and environment is the first and only institution of its kind in India.The pioneering effort of NCSM. Here one finds science out of doors and alive.

5. Fort William :The Fort William stands solemnly on the Western bank of The Hoogly. It stretches from the Western flank of the Red Road The Battle of Plassey ended in June, 1757. Robert Clive was deeply worried about the British destiny and what lay in store for Calcutta because the erstwhile fragile fort was easily captured by Siraj-ud-daula. Consequently, Clive decided to build a formidable fort to resist enemy onslaughts effectively.

6. Metro Rail :The Metro Rail in Kolkata is the country's only underground Railway system. Metro Rail links Dum Dum airport to Tallygunj through Shyambazar, Central Avenue, Esplanade, Parkstreet, Kalighat. It helps to solve the problems of citizen through rapid transportation.

7. National Library: The sprawling structure of the National Library, with a most imposing façade and staircases in Belverde near Alipore houses collection of precious book in India.

Places out side the KOLKATA city:

SHANTINIKETAN :Santiniketan, 212 Km. away from kolkata is famous due to Visva Bharti Unviersity, a centre of international studies and culture. The Visva Bharti University, a school in the traditional gurukul system was founded by Nobel laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore in 1901 at Santiniketan.

Prime Sites : There are so many institutions managed by Visva Bharti as - Path Bhavan, Uttar Siksha Sadan, Siksha Bhavan, Vidya Bhavan, Vinay Bhavana, Rabindra Bhavan, China Bhavan, Hindi Bhavan etc. There is also a Museum - Nandan. The splendid sculptures, frescoes, murals, and paintings of Rabindra Nath, Nandlal Bose, Ramkinkar, Bindobehari Mukhopadhyaya and others in the art galleries are worth while to see.

SUNDERBAN: The World Famous Mangrove Forest Sunderban with Royal Bengal Tiger & Crocodile.Just 3 hrs. drive from Kolkata along with a short cruise will take you into a different and mysterious world of mangrove forest on the coast of Bay of Bengal .

Stop while you find the watch towers & search through the dense forest to meet with the man-eater along with Deer, Snake, monkey, Wild Bore, a varieties of Birds and many more.

Evening enjoy campfire with local folksong or Banbibi Pala (A religious Drama based on the goddess of the forest) Experience the Hospitality of the local rural people at their ethnic cottage.

The Sunderbans are world famous for Royal Bengal Tigers which are also notorious as man-eaters. These forests, providing home to the largest number of tigers in the world, are also home to a variety of fauna including the largest deltaic crocodiles, dolphins, the king cobra, lizards, pythons, olive ridley,checkered killback, gangetic gharial (alligator), giant turtle and deer; and a variety of resident and migratory birds including heron, egret, cormorant,tishing eagle, seagull, kingfisher, whim brei, black-tailed godwit, little stint, eastern knot, curlew, sandpiper,golden plover, pintail and whistling teal.

Among the places which a tourist must visit are the Project Tiger, Sudhanyakhali, Netidhopani, Lothian Island Bird Sanctuary, Mayadwip and Kalasdwip, Bhagatpur Crocodile Project, Piyali, Kaikhali, Buridabari and Dobanki. Declared as a Biosphere Reserve as well as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997

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