City: West Bengal
Top Things to do in West Bengal
Top Hotels in West Bengal
- 1. Sinclairs Darjeeling
- 2. Ibis Kolkata Rajarhat
- 3. The Oberoi Grand
- 4. ITC Royal Bengal, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Kolkata
- 5. Novotel Kolkata Hotel and Residences
- 6. Fairfield by Marriott Kolkata
- 7. Ramada by Wyndham Darjeeling Gandhi Road
- 8. Sinclairs Retreat Kalimpong
- 9. The Peerless Inn
- 10. Regenta Orko's Kolkata by Royal Orchid Hotels Ltd
What to do and see in West Bengal, India: The Best Beaches
West Bengal (/wɛst bɛŋˈɡɔːl/) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal. With over 91 million inhabitants (as of 2011), it is India's fourth-most populous state. It has an area of 88,752 km (34,267 sq mi). A part of the ethno-linguistic Bengal region, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata (Calcutta), the seventh-largest city in India. As for geography, West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, and the coastal Sundarbans. The main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority.
Restaurants in West Bengal
1. Tajpur Beach
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 90 reviews
Reviewed By ArinP34
Unlike the series of beaches starting from mandarmani to gopalpur.....tajpur is much more cleaner, serene and less crowded. There area series of resort adjoining the beach and are almost affordable. The shacks located right in the beach are bingo and gives a goa feeling ???? . While all of them sells beer @200 for tuborg strong(i guess illegally) and allows to booze in their premises provided that you take the snacks from them. A pair of pomfret or crabs @300. Country chicken 1 kg including preparation@400. Prawn pair @150. The fun is that they keep live fishes/crabs/chickens and freshly cooks them as u order, so u get a super fresh food. However offlate the same shack culture has stated in mandarmani also where the rates are cheaper (perhaps introductory offer). Tajpur seems very spinechilling after sunset. Highly recommended for a small visit
2. Digha Beach
3. Mandarmani Beach
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 865 reviews
Reviewed By 214rinkud - Kolkata (Calcutta), India
Mondarmoni is a nice peaceful sea beach area in West Bengal, very enjoyable refreshing beach area with a long sand bed . The waves here is very calm small which will touch it feet & u can have the pleasure to walk along the waves sweetly touching it feet hand in hand with it nearest & dearest one .It is very relaxing & refreshing storing & recovering u with new energy to come back to it daily life hazards.
4. Udaipur Beach
5. Shankarpur Beach
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 162 reviews
Reviewed By amartya_dasgupta
Directions:- Before you reache digha take a left from Balisai to reach Sankarpur. You can visit both Tajpur and Sankarpur in this route, Tajpur comes first then comes Sankarpur. Road condition is extremely bad. Dike construction is going on. No crowd is there. So you can take your time and enjoy the beach. It is a quiet place with the rumbling sounds of sea waves. Spend few hours and move forward to digha.
6. Talseri Beach
7. Sagardwip Beach
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 21 reviews
Reviewed By AarushMunde - Kolkata (Calcutta), India
here we have to do bath....water is not so clean.....so i had washed my hand n leg ...no need to take toto here if u can walk for 20 minutes ....
8. Gangasagar
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 89 reviews
Reviewed By akrtrourist
Recently we had the opportunity to visit the famous Kapil Muni's temple located in Sagar island, South 24 Pargana, West Bengal, India near the Bay of Bengal, the confluence of river Hoogly (Ganga) and Baratala river. We were fortunate to pray inside Kapil Muni'r temple three times including an evening aarti and offered puja after a bath in morning hours in a very nice environment. As we had one night stay at Sagar Island, We could also visit many other religious places like Manasa Devi temple, Nagaraja temple ,Ramakrishna Mission at Manasa dwip and Yogendra Matth & Swami Omkarnath temple and Bharat Sevashram Sangha etc. Famous Ganga Sagar Mela generally starts in the first week of January and continues till mid January every year. With a holy dip in the Ganga Sagar on the early hours of makar Sankranti day( generally falls on 14th January) the offerings to the Kapil Muni'r temple is considered as a most holy ritual for Hindus. Very very large gathering of devotees take place during this auspicious time in Sagar Island, Ganga Sagar every year. One of the option to reach Ganga Sagar from Kolkata is by road one has to reach Kakdwip Lot No.8 Jetty No.4 and cross River Muri Ganga by passenger vessel ferry service to reach a place known as Kachuberia, Sagar island. Thereafter again by road one has to travel around 32Km to reach Kapil Muni'r temple. It is advisable to cross the river by ferry service preferably in the morning hours before 10.30hrs as due to low tide time no ferry service operates and one may have to wait for 4/5 hours. Advisable to check tide timing and vessel service timing beforehand. Moreover one should try to reach Ganga Sagar before noon. It is believed that the devotee at least once in life time should try to visit this holy place and offer prayer. Hope the review is helpful.
9. Shankarpur Beach
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 31 reviews
Reviewed By JharnaS10 - Mumbai, India
This is another beautiful beach quite close to Digha and it is also a fishing harbour.Its a visual treat seeing the fishermen with their nets in the sea and the rising sun and that's what makes the photographer go berserk!!
