Kolkata - A View from the River

You will be picked up from your hotel in Kolkata (Calcutta) and driven to the Babughat Jetty - the starting point for your river cruise. Once onboard, enjoy the sights of Kolkata as you travel on the river. Your boat will sail by the Howrah Bridge, the unique cantilever Bridge across the Ganges River joining the two metropolises of Kolkata and Howrah.

You also sails past the Howrah Railway Station, one of the busiest rail stations in the world. Other heritage sites on the banks of the great river include numerous temples and bathing ghats. You will see the historical point of arrival of Job Charnock at Cossim Bazaar. He was an administrator of the East india Company and is sometimes referred to as the founder of Kolkata. Then sail by two of the allegedly “haunted places in Kolkata”, the House of Dolls and the Nimtolla Burning Ghat, a crematorium established in 1857. Close bym you will see the Memorial built for Rabindranath Tagore, a Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1913, the first Asian person to receive the honor. See the oldest Gun and Shell Factory in India at Casipore. The cruise will end back at the Jetty Point and you will be driven back to your hotel in Kolkata.