Things to See and Do in Kolkata (Calcutta)
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Recommended Attractions in Kolkata (Calcutta)
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- Sep 17, 2009: ... next day met some other volunteers and went to the Victoria memorial hall and Park Street. I gave half a bottle of water to ...
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- Feb 12, 2008: ... Gandhi Road on a quest for the flower market under the Howrah Bridge. We got slightly lost and ended up walking through ...
- Apr 26, 2007: ... etc.
They have this amazing modern looking Sydneyesque bridge 'The Howrah bridge' here that you cannot take photos of! ...
- May 19, 2008: ... into the middle of the six-lane highway leading off of Howrah Bridge. An island of people gather here, some stranded trying ...
- Oct 7, 2008: ... the Maidan, Victoria Memorial and ending up at the Howrah bridge in northern Kolkata. The city is split by the Howrah ...
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- Feb 7, 2008: ... a good day around the city, Including:
Malik Ghat Flower Market- half slum, half wedding altar, half compost ...
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- Mar 4, 2008: ... wandering the city. The Maidan was the obvious destination. Sometimes called 'the lungs of Kolkata', the enormous park has ...
- May 18, 2008: ... . People walk the city barefoot.
Down by the Maidan, watch a sleeping man with his baby monkey. The monkey ...
- Feb 20, 2009: ... our lonely planet for some inspiration. Kolkata is a large city even by India's standands with an excess of 13 million ...
- May 17, 2008: ... of sweets which he passed around.
When we arrived in Calcutta, we followed Mr. and Mrs. Ghosh out the station. A ...
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- Aug 18, 2009: ... me just how heroic this woman was. Walking into the Mother House - where Mother Teresa is entombed - in the middle of ...
- Feb 4, 2008: ... call a woman you do not like a cow.
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- mother house (mother theresa's mission + tomb) (very moving- steena cried)
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- Nov 25, 2007: ... morning I got up a little early and visited the Mother House...which is the headquarters of the Missionaries of ...
- Oct 5, 2008: ... a repeat today!)
We then had to head back to the mother house to register, officially, to volunteer. It took about two ...
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- Aug 4, 2007: ... head on south towards the cultural center of kolkata -the area bounded by college street/shyambazar in the north all the way ...
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- Feb 26, 2005: ... already apprehensive about what to expect in India after hearing so much. When we arrived in Kolkata at 2:30 am the sites ...
- Jul 7, 2007: ... pushed their limits. We have also sampled some of Kolkata's non-Colonial hangover sights: a crap Bollywood comedy - we ...
- Apr 8, 2008: ... for cabs, but we found this only to be true in Kolkata); cows WERE everywhere, eating the scraps off of garbage in the ...
- Sep 14, 2008: ... mass and taking communion at the Mother Teresa Hospice in Calcutta. It was very poignant to be in the same room ...
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- Jul 13, 2008: ... this now upsets my stomach. We also went to the Kolkata Botanical Gardens which was very peaceful. I was going to pretend to ...
- Dec 28, 2008: ... 't a lot to see or do here. One day I went to the botanical gardens (a park) to see the biggest banyan tree in the world. It ...
- Feb 28, 2008: ... Museum
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Botanical Gardens and Banyan tree with 2nd largest canopy in the ...
- Mar 1, 2008: ... I wanted and they escorted me out. India 1 John 2. This afternoon I went to the Botanical Gardens. They claim to have a 250 ...
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- Feb 11, 2008: ... locked away, which is sad reflection on the city) and St John's Church provided a quiet retreat. As we got there, a service ...
- Oct 10, 2007: ... House, the GPO building. We must have walked past St. John's church without realising it. According to the Rough Guide map ...
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- Apr 24, 2007: ... Marble Palace ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Palace_(Kolkata)) Wow, what a place. Because we didn't have the ...
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- Dec 6, 2008: ... (the offices) we got some excellent views of Kolkata along with St Paul's Cathedral, the Victoria monument, and the new ...
- Jul 13, 2007: ... temples and the neighborhoods that surround them) and St. Paul's Cathedral.
Today we had a free afternoon ...
- Oct 17, 2007: ... doors until the power came back), Victoria Memorial, St-Paul's Cathedral, had dinner in a nice Indian restaurant and& ...
- Jan 9, 2008: ... to the Victoria Memorial. It looks a little bit like St Paul's Cathedral and is set in some lovely grounds. Inside there is ...