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Calcutta
How
to reach: Well connected by
air with all major cities. Calcutta is well connected on Eastern
Railways and even by road with all major cities.
Where
to stay: Hotel Airport Ashok,
Hotel Hindustan International , Hotel Oberoi Grand, The Park Hotel,
The Kenilworth. The Peerless Inn, Lytton Motel (3-star), The
Samilton, Fairlawn Hotel, Hotel Shalimar, Great Eastern Hotel, Hotel
Taj Bengal and others.
What
to see: Victoria Memorial,
St. Paul's Cathedral, the Raj Bhawan, Shahid Minar, Eden Gardens,
Birla Planetarium, Zoological Gardens, Indian Museum, Ashutosh
Museum, the Birla Academy of Art & Culture, the Academy of Fine
Arts, the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, Nehru
Children's Museum, the Armenian Church, Nakhoda Mosque, Belur Math,
Kali Temple, Jain Pareshnath Temple, the Parsi Fire Temple, the
Hebrew synagogue and Botanical Gardens, Dakhineshwar Temple, Science
City, Vidyasagar Setu, Gurusaday Museum.
Excursions:
Chandernagore (39 kms), Digha (185 kms), Darjeeling, JaIdapara,
Kurseong, Kalimpong, Mayapur (134 kms), Murshidabad (221 kms), Mirk
Santiniketan (213 kms), Sajnekhali, Sunderbans (139 kms), Vishnupur
(152 kms).
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