What is there to see in kolkata?

Question

sight seeing in kolkatta

Answer 1

Get hold of a city guide book. Choose places as per your liking.

Answer 2

The city Kolkata and its people is very much friendly but may ask you : "where from r u Sir/Madam   .. ?"

It helps to suggest things :

City Kolkata :

- Victoria Memorial, The Horse race ground, The Zoo & Planatorium

- Museium , the Art School & Sahid Minar (tower)

- Three bridges, namely : Howrah bridge, Vidyasagar Setu and another new built on river Ganges

- Birala Science Musium and Science city

- Very old Jain Temples in the North

- Two famous Kali temples : Kalighat and Dakhineswar

- Dalhousie and adjoining area for heritage buildings

....etc.....etc  

Places in WB, around Kolkata :-

- Sunderban ( the great forest of mangroves and The Royal Bengal Tiger(s)

- Digha, Shakarpur and Mandermoni, the sea

- Santiniketan and Bolepur (Rabindranath Tagore famous

- Bishnupur, the old city, terakota famous

- Murshidabad and Gour  the capital city of Muslim time

- Darjeeling, the hill queen

- Coochbehar, the old Kingdom city

....etc. ...etc.

Answer 3

There are many good places to see in Kolkata.

    * Victoria Memorial

    * Shantiniketan

    * Howrah Bridge

    * Dakshineshwar Kali Temple

    * Indian Museum

    * Durga Pooja

Apart from these you also have good malls to hang around.

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Abhijith

http://www.traveltrendz.com

Answer 4

Other two persons have already answered for what is there in Kolkata to see.

Apart from them you can see the followings -

1. Calcutta Zoo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alipore_Zoo...

2. Birla Planatorium (oldest planatorium in the country - http://calcuttanow.blogspot.com/2008/02/...

3. Science City (First of this kind in India- http://www.kolkata-india.com/travel/scie...

4. Energy Conservation Center

5. Nicco Park (http://www.kolkata-india.com/travel/nicc...

6. Aquatica (http://www.kolkata-india.com/travel/aqua...

7. Ramsar Wet Lands

8. Botanical Garden in Howrah - Great Banuan tree 250 years old with 1280 Aerial Roots (http://www.kolkata-india.com/travel/bota...

9. Birla Temple (http://calcuttanow.blogspot.com/2007/02/...

10. Belur Math (http://www.kolkata-india.com/travel/belu...

Any 100 other places................

Answer 5

Hi, you can visit following memorials in kolkata:

Victoria Memorial, Indian Museum, Birla Planetarium, ShantiNiketan,Howrah Bridge etc.

For more info go to:

http://www.tsiindia.com/kolkata.html