Murti nadir dhare....

We got down from train at malbazar at about 9.30 A.M. There was number of private car available for hire just beside the railway station.We booked a maruti 800 for that day for a tour to Murti, Jhalong & Bindu.

Murti is about 18Km from Malbazar. Actually Murti is a name of a river, which flows down from Kalimpong. Murti as a place is situated besides the same river near the Chapramari forest. There are some hotels and resorts near the place. The river side is awesome. There is very scanty amount of water in the river and you can easily cross the river there.

 

Dooars Tour

In the april of 2011 we got a three days leave in the midst of our busy schedule. And in no time we decided to have a trip to dooars. We had very small time and more over not a very good time to visit the forests and so we limited our tour to mainly Gorumara National Park and areas in and around it.

We started on 21st April by Kanchankanya Express from Sealdah. At about 7.30 A.M on the next day we reached New Jalpaiguri. We booked our ticket upto New Mal Junction station. The rest of the one hour train journey is mesmerizing. The Siliguri-Alipurduar railway line leads from the forests of North Bengal to the foothills in the country of Bhutan. You can see the tea-gardens and splendid beauties of the forests directly from the train. We shall always remember the journey for ever. 

 

Geonkhali Tour

Geonkhali, a small village in the Purba Medinipur district  of West Bengal.This is a perfect picnic spot where three rivers meet. Damodar, Rupnarayan and Hoogly. For complete relaxation, this spot is an ideal place. The scenic beauty of Geonkhali attracts lot of tourists every year. The flavor of Bengal village is present here.It can be reached by various ways. But via Nurpur is the shortest among these. 
I started from Esplaned bus stand for Nurpur by a private bus. it took 2hrs 30min to reach Nurpur, a small village in south 24 pargana. One can take a launch for Geonkhali from there at an interval of one hour and it takes almost 20minutes in launch.
It is situated at the confluence of three big rivers namely Damodar, Hooghly and Rupnarayan. Nearby lies the water project developed by the Haldia Development Authority, where it comprises huge water tanks adorned by fir trees on all sides. 

 

Festival of Colour!!!!

Holi is the spring religious festival of Hindus. It's observed all over the India,and West Bengal is not an exception. It is also known as the Basanto-Utsav in bengali. 

In Shantiniketan holi or basanto-utsav has a special musical quality. You can taste the festival of colour here in a different way.

This year we planned the photographic tour in Shantiniketan just one day advance, so we didn't have any opportunity to get a hotel room or reservation in train. We started from Sealdaha railway station by Padatik Express at 22.55Hrs, and as usual we just managed to board the train somehow, no scope for sitting at all! We reached Bolepur at about 1.20hrs next day and took rest in the Bolepur station. In the early morning at 4.30hrs after being freshen we started for the Viswabharati.

Then we had an excellent and colorful photographic journey there. We observed the joy of color and vigor of youth in the spring festival there.    
At about 11hrs in the morning we left Viswabharati and took our lunch in a hotel in Bolepur and came back Kolkata by Shantiniketan Express.