Tourist Information

Tour Operators: Cox & Kings, Thomas Cook and various others

Places to Visit in and around Kolkata

Kolkata is rightly named ‘City of Joy’ especially due to its warm-hearted and friendly people. There are many historical as well as tourist places in and around.

Tourist attractions in Kolkata (Ref.: wikipedia):

VICTORIA MEMORIAL

The Victoria Memorial is a large marble building in Kolkata , West Bengal, India, which was built between 1906 and 1921. It is dedicated to the memory of Queen Victoria (1819–1901) and is now a museum and tourist destination under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture.

SCIENCE CITY, KOLKATA

Science City, Kolkata is the largest science centre in the Indian subcontinent under National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), Ministry of Culture, Government of India, is at the crossing of Eastern Metropolitan Bypass and J B S Haldane avenue, Kolkata.

MOTHER HOUSE

The Missionaries of Charity’s Mother House is a holy place of pilgrimage and reverence for those who are searching for a more meaningful existence. It was established by the Blessed Mother Teresa in 1950 with the purpose of selfless service to mankind and to uplift the plagued humanity towards the path of salvation.

ECO PARK

New Town Eco Park (Prakriti Tirtha) is an urban park in Rajarhat, Kolkata and the biggest park so far in India. The park is situated on a 480 acres (190 ha) plot and is surrounded by a 104 acres (42 ha) waterbody with an island in the middle.

Other places to visit in Kolkata: Jorasankho thakur bari, Dakshineshwar kali temple, Tagore house, Fort William, Eden Gardens and many more.

Places for short tours:

SHANTINIKETAN

Santiniketan (Santiniketôn) is a small town near Bolpur in the Birbhum district of West Bengal, India, approximately 160 km north of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). It was established by Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, and later expanded by his son Rabindranath Tagore whose vision became what is now a university town, Visva-Bharati University.

HAZARDUARI PALACE

Hazarduari Palace, earlier known as the Bara Kothi, is located in the campus of Kila Nizamat in Murshidabad, in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was built in the nineteenth century by architect Duncan Macleod, under the reign of Nawab Nazim Humayun Jah of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa (1824–1838).

Other nearby places to visit are the Sundarbans (Royal Bengal Tiger), Frazer Ganj, Vishnupur (old temples) and many more.