Kolkata sightseeing Trip

This time on our yearly vacation trip to India we visited Kolkata for few days. We reached there on 11th of Jan and our parents joined us there as well. We had pre planned the dates so that we could enjoye a few days of outing together. We visited some of the landmarks of Kolkata along with visit to our relatives houses in and around the City.


Lot of high rises in and around Rajarhat.Rajarhat is new extension of City next to Salt lake.

These malls are the new hangouts for people.

Glimpse of Kolkata

Our sight seeing begin with the famous Dakshineshwar temple located on the banks of Ganges. The temple was constructed in the year 1855 by Queen Rasmani .

At the Entrance of Dakhsineshwar Kolkata.

Inside the temple.Taking photo is not allowed inside the temple but we could resist from taking a few snaps.

Inside Dakshineshwar temple

Visible from Dakshineshwar and located on the other side of Ganga is Belur math-head quarter of Ramkrishna mission.We took water ferry to cross the river and visit Belur math.

Waiting for the ferry.

Inside Belurmath Campus

Inside Belurmath Campus

The next day we visited Nicco park. This amusement park is quite big and takes full day to enjoy it to fullest but we could spend just around an hour or so as we had more destinations to cover.

At Niccon Park entrance.

Try to Spot a known face in this Pic.

Kunjal excited as what to see next.

The next place we went was science city.It had lots of hands on experiments to do . We all enjoyed there a lot specially Kunjal.

Welcome to science city!

Kunjal kunjal all around.

Kunal busy experimenting along with Dadu and Thakurta.

Our next destination was Birla planetarium ,where one gets to know about the stars constellations and more astronomical things.

Waiting in the queue for our turn to get in.

The cathedral church of Kolkata.Its next to the Birla Planetarium.

The maidan area of Kolkata is most probably the only huge open space in the heart of the city . Its a nice place to sit and relax . The horse carts waiting in front of victoria memorial takes you for a ride around the maidan.

In front of Victoria memorial.

The vidyasagar bridge ofkolkata. Its a cable stayed bridge on the Ganges river.