Taj Bengal Kolkata

... Persian ruins of Persepolis near Shiraz. In India, I'm looking forward to seeing Sikh influenced Amritsar in the northwest, the famed Taj Mahal in Agra, the city of Varanasi along the Ganges river and finally Calcutta in the northeast. And, as always, ...

2008 Solo 'Round the World: Angkor Wat, Taj Mahal, Indonesia, Tibet, India, Everest Base Camp (not the summit people!), Thailand, Nepal, Myanmar, Malaysia, Laos and Dubai. Though who really knows.... I might not be making entries EVERYday, but I'll try ...

... - 24 February After a day of darting and dashing on Friday through miles of markets and warehouses of Kolkata, we spent a lovely afternoon today at the Taj Bengal - a truly 5 star hotel where pampering is their mission. We needed it! Great food at ...

... to Delhi (Taj Mahal) and Bombay (now Mumbai). But there are many English-speaking people and the five-star hotels such as the Taj Bengal and Oberoi are fabulous. We did not run any air conditioners this week. There is not a lot of outdoor noise as ...

... to visit the city during Durga Puja, the most famous, the biggest, brightest and longest festival in Bengal. The whole mood of the state & Kolkata changes and the economy gets the biggest boost. The city burst into a joyful atmosphere with explosion ...

...   Here's my dairy page for my last day in India. On The Way Out... I rode all the way to Kolkata airport without seeing a single airport directional roadsign along the way. Another summary of Indias mentality. ‶Roadsigns directing people to ...

... allowed to use into Bangladesh. If we get the permit in time, the plan is get the train north from Kolkata to Siliguri (top of West Bengal state, underneath Bhutan). Then a bus across to Assam state and into Arunachal Pradesh to Itanagar. The permit gives ...

Welcome to Kolkata: it is October. Monsoon is just over. Sky is clear blue and dotted with floating specs of white cloud. As you arrive at Calcutta airport, a whiff of celebration season enters your nostril. It is celebration season for Bengalis: drums ...

... than a euro, talk about value for money. Just off Chowringee Road is the main tourist attraction of Kolkata and arguably right up there with the Taj Mahal. The Victoria Memorial is an enormous marble white palace-like structure which was built in 1901 ...

... longue traversee du West Bengale par jeep et par train, nous voila arrives dans la ville qui fait couler beaucoup d'encre, Kolkata (ex-Calcutta). A la rencontre de la ville En resume tout semble extreme dans cette ville de plus de 12 millions d'habitants ...

... of just a few moments of experience. but (isn't there always a 'but'..?), i will give you my impressions, and my thoughts. kolkata (calcutta to the old school lot) full of crows. everywhere! never seen so many of the things. more crows than sit in ...

... , wenigstens wurde ich vorgewunken und musste mich nicht durch die Schlange kaempfen). Habe einige weitere Sehenswuerdigkeiten in Kolkata besichtigt, aber so direkt ein richtigen Knaller hat Kolkata natuerlich nicht zu bieten. War im Victoria ...

... mountains (with a tour operator, don't worry Mom/Dad). Anyway, I'll go up there in around 5 days. What else about Kolkata/Calcutta? Well, the tourist neighborhood is a little nicer than Delhi, if you are talking just about the physical environment that ...

... dem Nachtzug, bei dem die Sitzplaetze einfach umgeklappt werden und dann im Sleeperbereich drei Betten uebereinander entstehen nach Kolkata. Kolkata war einer der ersten Handelsposten der East Indian Trading Company und so erkennt man noch ...

After a 15 and a half hour train journey yesterday we finally arrived in Kolkata! While in India we've been to Amritsar, Delhi, Agra and Varanasi. It is impossible to describe the amazing-ness of India! The Taj Mahal is just stunning, and the most ...

I would like to be able to say that my last stop in India was the best, but unfortunately that wasn't really the case. Kolkata, like so much of India, is an incredibly crowded, noisy and chaotic place. To make matters worse, the monsoon rains had arrived ...