Kolkata Trip Overview
Forget the Taj Mahal and pink Jaipur, welcome to the chaos of Kolkata!
“Hello Kolkata” introduces you to local lives, culture and heritage of Kolkata.
You will learn during the tour how British East India Company started a factory in 1690 and their journey from trader to ruler. You will see many heritage buildings and learn about the history of Kolkata. Take a walk in “White Town” and learn interesting facts and story.
Flower market is a site for your sight, experience the chaos and crowd of India’s largest Flower market and walk on the world’s busiest iconic “Howrah Bridge”.
Enjoy a Ferry ride in Ganges.
Explore Kumartuli (potter’s town), interact with local artisans and see them handcrafting clay idols.
Visit the oldest market in India, was established for British residents in Kolkata.
Enjoy your Breakfast at a local restaurant.
Friendlier than India’s other cities, this is a city you ‘feel’ more than simply visit. Let’s Walk, Explore & Experience Kolkata like a local folk.
Additional Info
Duration: 5 hours
Starts: Kolkata, India
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Forget the Taj Mahal and pink Jaipur, welcome to the chaos of Kolkata!
“Hello Kolkata” introduces you to local lives, culture and heritage of Kolkata.
You will learn during the tour how British East India Company started a factory in 1690 and their journey from trader to ruler. You will see many heritage buildings and learn about the history of Kolkata. Take a walk in “White Town” and learn interesting facts and story.
Flower market is a site for your sight, experience the chaos and crowd of India’s largest Flower market and walk on the world’s busiest iconic “Howrah Bridge”.
Enjoy a Ferry ride in Ganges.
Explore Kumartuli (potter’s town), interact with local artisans and see them handcrafting clay idols.
Visit the oldest market in India, was established for British residents in Kolkata.
Enjoy your Breakfast at a local restaurant.
Friendlier than India’s other cities, this is a city you ‘feel’ more than simply visit. Let’s Walk, Explore & Experience Kolkata like a local folk.
Itinerary
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Stop At: General Post Office, Netaji Subhas Rd Fairley Place, B.B.D. Bagh, Kolkata (Calcutta) 700001 India
Part -1. “White Town” Walk
Calcutta in its heyday was divided into two main districts – White Town, which was where the British and other Europeans lived their lives and did their business, and Black Town, which was where the local Bengalis resided. In 1690, Job Charnok, an agent of the East India Company chose this place for a British trade settlement. You will walk past the colonial buildings made during the British reign. You will learn during the tour how British East India Company started a factory in White Town in 1690 and their journey from trader to ruler. You will see many heritage buildings and learn about the history of Kolkata. Take a walk in British Colonial Town and learn interesting facts and story from us.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Malik Ghat Flower Market, Southeast end of Howrah Bridge, Kolkata (Calcutta) India
Part–2. Chaos of colorful Flower Market & Iconic Howrah Bridge
Flower market is a site for your sight, experience the chaos and crowd of India’s largest Flower market. Walk in to view colorful Flower market.
Take a walk on India’s busiest and iconic Howrah Bridge. Enjoy a wonderful walk along the Ganges River with great view of Howrah Bridge and also see the locals taking bath in Ganges, boats, ships sailing around.
Enjoy a ferry ride in Ganges.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Kumartuli, Hatkhola, Kolkata (Calcutta) India
Part – 3. Potter’s Town &” Black Town” Walk.
Kumartuli – the alley of potters, where Gods and Goddesses are born in the skilled hands of mud sculptors who are in the profession of the idol making for several generations. Walk and Explore Kumartuli), interact with local artiste and see them handcrafting clay idols.
Walk around old Kolkata, was known as Black Town, which was where the local Bengalis resided. And it was in Black Town that these babus – as they were called – erected their fabulous villas and mansions.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Howrah Bridge, Jagganath Ghat 1, Strand Road, Kolkata (Calcutta) 700001 India
Take a walk on India’s busiest and iconic Howrah Bridge. Enjoy a wonderful walk along the Ganges River with great view of Howrah Bridge and also see the locals taking bath in Ganges, boats, ships sailing around.
Enjoy a ferry ride in Ganges.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: New Market, Lindsay Street at Free School Street, Kolkata (Calcutta) India
Part – 4. Oldest Super Market in India
Walk into This famous heritage Market. Built in 1874 for the British residents in Kolkata who did not like to shop with native people. The New Market was thrown open to the British inhabitants on January 1, 1874, where the blue-blooded and affluent Englishmen shopped at brand stores. It is also the oldest market in India.
Duration: 30 minutes
Pass By: Town Hall, Kolkata (Calcutta) India
Kolkata Town Hall in Roman Doric style, was built in 1813 by the architect and engineer Maj.-Gen. John Garstin with a fund of 700,000 Rupees raised from a lottery to provide the Europeans with a place for social gatherings.
Stop At: Black Hole of Kolkata, Netaji Subhas Rd, Fairley Place, B.B.D. Bagh, Kolkata, West Bengal 700001, India
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small prison or dungeon in Fort William where troops of Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war for three days on 20 June 1756.
John Zephaniah Holwell, one of the British prisoners and an employee of the East India Company, said that, after the fall of Fort William, the surviving British soldiers, Anglo-Indian soldiers, and Indian civilians were imprisoned overnight in conditions so cramped that many people died from suffocation and heat exhaustion, and that 123 of 146 prisoners of war imprisoned there died
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Writers’ Building, BBD Bagh N Dalhousie Square, Kolkata (Calcutta) 700001 India
The Writers’ Building is the secretariat building of the State Government of West Bengal in Kolkata. The 150-meter long building covers the entire northern stretch of the iconic Lal Dighi pond in the downtown area of Dalhousie square. It originally served as the principal administrative office for writers (junior clerks) of the British East India Company. Designed by Thomas Lyon in 1777.
Duration: 10 minutes
Pass By: Maidan, Just south of B.B.D. Bagh to just north of Alipore and from the Hooghly River to J. L. Nehru Rd. and the shops of Park St., Kolkata (Calcutta) India
Kolkata Maidan
Stop At: Eden Gardens, Kolkata Centre, Kolkata (Calcutta) 700021 India
Eden Gardens is a cricket ground in Kolkata, India. Eden Gardens is often regarded informally as India’s home of cricket. The ground has been referred to as “cricket’s answer to the Colosseum,” and is widely acknowledged to be one of the most iconic cricket stadiums in the world
Duration: 10 minutes
