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West Bengal travel guides
24 complete guides covering 258 places in West Bengal, with honest pacing, maps, sources and advice for travelling with parents.
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- Bakkhali8 placesA long, quiet beach at the edge of the Ganges delta, with mangroves, a fishing…
- Bardhaman7 placesA former princely seat on the Grand Trunk Road: Raj-era temples, a colonial…
- Bishnupur12 placesA small Malla-era capital of terracotta temples, silk weavers and classical…
- Bongaon7 placesA quiet border town on the Ichamati, where a small deer sanctuary, a novelist's…
- Cooch Behar9 placesA former princely capital of wide avenues, a red-brick palace and a central…
- Darjeeling20 placesTea gardens climbing misty hillsides, the toy train's whistle echoing through…
- Digha13 placesA long, shallow Bay of Bengal beach, a sea wall at sunrise and a fish market at…
- Gangasagar8 placesWhere the Ganga meets the Bay of Bengal: a quiet island shrine for most of the…
- Gorumara5 placesRhino grassland, elephant forest and tea estates in the Dooars, with the…
- Jaldapara10 placesTall grass, one-horned rhinos and Himalayan foothills: a short, wild safari…
- Kalimpong13 placesA quiet hill station of Buddhist monasteries, flower nurseries and sweeping…
- Kolkata22 placesColonial grandeur, temple fervor, the Hooghly river and some of India's finest…
- Kurseong10 placesA tea-and-railway hill town at about 1,500 metres, where the toy train runs…
- Lava9 placesA misty forest village at the gate of Neora Valley, with a working monastery…
- Malda13 placesBrick ruins of Bengal's sultanate capitals, a river town and a mango…
- Mandarmani9 placesA long, firm-sand beach on the Bay of Bengal, a calmer weekend break than…
- Mayapur11 placesA riverside pilgrimage town where the Ganga meets the Jalangi: Chaitanya's…
- Mirik11 placesA small hill town built around a lake, with tea slopes, pine forest and a…
- Murshidabad12 placesThe old Nawabi capital of Bengal: river palaces, mosques, cemeteries and…
- Raiganj5 placesA trading town on the Kulik River in North Bengal, best known for its bird…
- Santiniketan12 placesTagore's school under the trees: low mud houses, red laterite earth, Baul songs…
- Siliguri11 placesThe flat gateway to the eastern Himalaya: Buddhist stupas, a forest sanctuary…
- Sundarbans13 placesThe world's largest mangrove delta, seen from a slow boat: tidal creeks…
- Tarapith8 placesA riverside pilgrimage village in Birbhum, built around a Tara temple, a…