Capital
:
Kolkatta
Language : Bengali and English
Airport : Calcutta, Bagdogra(Siliguri)
Tourist
season : October to March.
Climate : Winter 14° C - 34° C; Summer 25° C
- 36° C
West Bengal is the gateway to the east having special
blend of the ancient and the modern. It's landscape
is a variety of hills, plains and coastal areas. The
state is long and narrow and is made up of the delta
of the lower Ganges and the other rivers in the south
and the mountainous region in the north. The state is
home to some of the finest poets, writers and film makers
Tourist Attraction of West
Bengal
CALCUTTA : the human city
The Ganges (called the Hooghly in Calcutta) is still
the inspiration, as it was to Job Charnok, East India
Company agent, who reached the shores in August 1690,
to found the city. Calcutta, after London, was the British
Empire’s second city.
Calcutta is a city of baffling paradoxes, a city that
leaves its stamp on one's mind ... forever.
Darjeeling
Darjeeling,
centre of India's most celebrated tea growing district,
has possibly the most picturesque views among all Indian
hill resorts. Outside the monsoon season (June to September),
the views across the snowy peak of Kanchenjunga and
other mountains down to the swollen rivers in the valley
are, simply magnificent. Darjeeling has the unique feature
of a toy train, which takes you from Jalpaiguri to Darjeeling
through the steep mountainsides.
Sunderbans National Park &
Tiger Reserve
Located in the Ganga delta in West Bengal, spanning
the Hooghly in the west and Teulia river in the east,
Sunderbans was declared a National Park in 1984. Sunderbans
is home to the magnificent Royal Bengal tiger, the park
holding more tigers than any other tiger reserve. More
than 400 tigers were recorded during the mid-1980s.
Crocodiles and the Gangetic dolphin are to be found
aplenty in the Raimgangal river. The Sajnakhali sanctuary,
famous for its rich avian population, is regarded as
a part of the Sunderbans National Park.
Digha
187 km south east of Calcutta on the coast of the Bay
of Bengal, Digha is a popular beach resort with a 6
km long beach. Fringed by graceful casuarina trees,
Digha offers an enchanting view of the sunrise and sunset.
The sea is calm and shallow for about a mile from the
beach, making it quite safe for swimmers.
Bakkhali
132 km from Calcutta, quiet Bakkhali is the second popular
sea resort of West Bengal.
Sagar
Site of the Gangasagar Mela, the largest fair in West
Bengal, held on the occasion of Makara Sankranti, it
draws lakhs of pilgrims from all over India. Sagar is
100 km from Calcutta.
Shantiniketan
Perhaps the only university of this kind in the world,
Shantiniketan was the brain child of the great genius
Rabindranath Tagore. This open air International University
has emerged as a universal centre of excellence for
scholars and students of Oriental culture. Despite a
distinct slant towards humanities and performing arts,
the university also has an excellent faculty for post
graduate and research studies in science. Shantiniketan
is 136 km from Calcutta.
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