Hotel Metropole
174 Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata (Calcutta)
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Hotel Metropole Kolkata (Calcutta)

174 Sarat Bose Road Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, 700029, India

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Poverty Amidst the Fantastic - Part 1

A travel blog entry by mrcwoodsman

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... in Calcutta I flew to Delhi and did the Golden Triangle tour which took me to the places I mentioned above (Jaipur and Agra). Although Agra is best known for the Taj Mahal I liked Jaipur best of the two cities as Jaipur's people seemed friendlier and of course I stayed in a great hotel. But also the City Palace was a very nice place to do a few hours of walking and being a tourist with camera in hand snapping away.

The City Palace is actually a palace complex made up ...

Sudder St Kolkata here we come

A travel blog entry by glassbird

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... and gives my mind something to work towards.

The next day we visit handicrafts fairs that have happened in conjunction with our visit. We see beautiful colors and designs in the woven materials as we walk around admiring the work. It feels so relaxed, not like New Market in slightest. God I hate New Market….Pat dragged me back there under duress, back into the yelling and lies. There is an inherent dishonesty that pervades the place and denies ...

Our group trip finishes and we set off on our own

A travel blog entry by diannemurray

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... an adequate but dark tiled bathroom, and hot water which takes forever but it is good when it arrives.

We book an 8.30pm dinner, then have a look around the hotel. It is in a beautifully restored colonial-style house, with lots of different communal areas, decorated with lots of books, artworks and antiques, and several outdoor areas including a 1st floor garden terrace. Go out for a quick look at the Ghats, to find a lot of ...

Cosmopolitan Calcutta

A travel blog entry by katieweber

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... into every nook and kranny, street food carts vying for space on the sidewalk.
Our second day we went to the Kumatuli district, wwhich consists of rows and rows of workshops on narrow street alleys. It is here that artists construct the huge effigies of gods that they burn at annual festivals. They use straw and wire to construct the skeleton of these huge sculptures, then coat them in mud pulled from the Howrah river. Then the effigies ...

Performance Pressure

A travel blog entry by monsoon-music

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... Biran-babu had told us that he wanted to hear us singing in the Dhrupad style, the very ancient root of all Indian classical music. He also told us that we wanted to have us perform at the ‘Rossa Golla Bhavan’ and make and event out of it. Well that’s exactly what happened! Gurujee taught us how to sing Dhrupad alap in Raga Kedar, something that we had been working on the month leading up to the concert, ...

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This boutique hotel was formerly known as: Metropole