Kolkata travel guides
Practical, up-to-date guides written from real trips — routes, drive times, fares, seasons and itineraries for travelling out of Kolkata.
Best weekend trips from Kolkata
Kolkata is unusually lucky: within a five-hour drive you can be on a beach, inside a mangrove forest, among terracotta temples or on a river-side campus. This guide covers the getaways that actually work as a two-day trip — with honest drive times, the right season, and what each place is genuinely good for.
9 minReadKolkata Airport taxi: the complete guide
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is compact and well organised, but the taxi options at arrivals are not equally good — and the difference shows up most at 2am or during monsoon. Here is how the choices actually compare, and how long each part of the city really takes.
7 minReadKolkata to Digha: complete travel guide
Digha is the trip almost every Kolkata family makes at least once — close enough for a weekend, cheap enough to be spontaneous, and busy enough that you never struggle for food or a room. Here is the practical detail: how long it really takes, what a cab costs, and how to spend two days there.
8 minReadKolkata to Darjeeling: how to get there and what to plan
Darjeeling is roughly 620 km from Kolkata, which makes the journey a real decision rather than an afterthought. There are three sensible ways to do it, and the right one depends on how much time you have and how many people are travelling.
8 minReadKolkata in one day: a sightseeing itinerary that actually works
Most one-day Kolkata itineraries fail for the same reason: they ignore traffic. The city rewards a route planned geographically, north to south, rather than a wish-list ticked in random order. This plan assumes a car and driver for the day and a 9am start.
7 minReadPlanning a Sundarban trip from Kolkata
The Sundarban is the closest genuinely wild place to Kolkata — the world's largest mangrove delta, about three hours by road and then a boat. It is also the trip most often planned with the wrong expectations, so this guide is deliberately honest about what you will and will not see.
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