Day 01: Arrive Kolkata
Arrive Kolkata. On arrival you will be meet by our representative at airport and escorted till you check in at Hotel.
Calcutta over the years has been ‘The City of Paradoxes’. Living up to this name, Calcutta had done away with the so-far-accepted story of its birth. After a legal battle, the courts have ruled that Job Charnock was not the founder the city, and that August day in 1690, the 24th, when he landed on the banks of the Hooghly River, is not the birthday of Kolkata. The courts have ruled that sufficient evidence is available to accept that Kolkata existed before Job Charlock’s arrival. So after quite a long period of accepting 24 August 1690 as Kolkata’s Birthday and Job Charnock as the city’s Founding Father, the city is currently ‘fatherless’ and without a birthday. Past history may have got shrouded in doubts, but there is no doubt at all about the current –history –in –the –marking. The city is fast expanding eastwards with landmarks –type residential building and institutional /commercial complexes of the most impressive, contemporary stylish kind coming up at many places on and around the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass and the road to the airport. A city center is coming up in the Salt Lake area, Satellite Township has been planned at Raja hat; and much more that is beautiful and impressive is being created. All this coupled with a number of flyovers, widening of roads, continued explosion of quality retail shopping malls/high class stores, and many other such activities show that Kolkata is on the fast track of development and modernization.
The almost – religious attachment and following of the city’s famous football clubs is making way for the greater popularity of cricket. If this be taken as an indication, Kolkata is firmly in the grip of the winds of change. The results of these changes can only be told by the future. Wherever it may reach, Kolkata remains a wonderful, humane and throbbing living megapolis.
Overnight at hotel
Day 02: In Kolkata
Morning post breakfast City tour of Kolkata.
Victoria Memoril The Victoria Memorial was built to commemorate the peak of the British Empire in India. The Victoria Memorial, conceived by Lord Curzon, represents the architectural climax of Kolkata city. Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy specified its classical style but the actual plan of Victoria Memorial
was laid down by the well-known architect, Sir William Emerson. The Victoria Memorial blends the best of the British and Mughal architecture. The Victoria Memorial hall was built with white Makrana marbles. The Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of Victoria Memorial in 1906 and it was inaugurated in 1921 in memory of Queen Victoria. The Victoria Memorial is 338 by 228 feet and a height of 184 feet.
St Paul’s Cathedral Built between 1839 and 1847, St Paul’s Cathedral is one of India’s most important churches. It’s east of the Victoria Memorial at the South end of the Maidan. The steeple fell during an earthquake in 1897 and was redesigned and rebuilt. Inside there’s some interesting memorials and stained glass, including the west window by Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
Mother Teresa’s HouseThe Missionaries of Charity was founded on October 7, 1950 by Mother Teresa and her small band of dedicated pupils for the purpose of serving humanity with the vow of “Wholehearted and Free service to the poorest of the poor”. Their mission was to care for “the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, and all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.
Balance day at leisure
Overnight at hotel.
Day 03 Leave Kolkata
In time transfer to international airport to connect flight for onward destination
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