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WEEKEND GETAWAY FROM KOLKATA – SHANTINIKETAN & BISHNUPUR ✨🛕🎨

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2 stays
Shantiniketan Bishnupur

Day-wise schedule

3 days
Day 1

DAY 1 (SAT): KOLKATA → SHANTINIKETAN

6 activities

Pickup from Kolkata (~160 km, 3.5 hrs) (or scenic morning train to Bolpur) 🎨 Visva-Bharati University (Tagore's institution) – Rabindra Bhavan museum; Kala Bhavana (art school); Chhatimtala (Tagore's meditation spot) 🏛 Uttarayan Complex – Tagore's houses (Udayan, Konark, Shyamali) 🛕 Kankalitala (Shakti Peetha, nearby) 🌅 Sonajhuri Khoyai – evening Saturday haat (tribal craft market under the trees; Baul folk singers)

  • Pickup from Kolkata (~160 km, 3.5 hrs) (or scenic morning train to Bolpur)
  • Visva-Bharati University (Tagore's institution) – Rabindra Bhavan museum; Kala Bhavana (art school); Chhatimtala (Tagore's meditation spot)
  • Uttarayan Complex – Tagore's houses (Udayan, Konark, Shyamali)
  • Kankalitala (Shakti Peetha, nearby)
  • Sonajhuri Khoyai – evening Saturday haat (tribal craft market under the trees; Baul folk singers)
  • Check-in & Overnight stay in Shantiniketan
Day 2

DAY 2 (SUN): SHANTINIKETAN → BISHNUPUR

6 activities

Breakfast & check-out 🎶 Baul music & Santhal village experience 🚗 Drive to Bishnupur (~90 km) 🛕 Bishnupur Terracotta Temples (Malla dynasty, 17th c.) – Rasmancha (oldest brick temple, 1600 AD); Jor Bangla; Shyam Rai Temple; intricate terracotta panels depicting Ramayana & Krishna leela 🧵 Baluchari silk sarees (GI-tagged; woven with mythological motifs) & Bankura terracotta horses

  • Breakfast & check-out
  • Baul music & Santhal village experience
  • Drive to Bishnupur (~90 km)
  • Bishnupur Terracotta Temples (Malla dynasty, 17th c.) – Rasmancha (oldest brick temple, 1600 AD); Jor Bangla; Shyam Rai Temple; intricate terracotta panels depicting Ramayana & Krishna leela
  • Baluchari silk sarees (GI-tagged; woven with mythological motifs) & Bankura terracotta horses
  • Check-in & Overnight stay in Bishnupur
Day 3

DAY 3 (SUN/MON): BISHNUPUR → KOLKATA

4 activities

Breakfast & check-out 🛕 Remaining temple cluster (Madan Mohan; Lalji) · Dalmadal Cannon 🛍 Terracotta & Baluchari shopping 🚗 Drive back to Kolkata (arrive evening)

  • Breakfast & check-out
  • Remaining temple cluster (Madan Mohan; Lalji) · Dalmadal Cannon
  • Terracotta & Baluchari shopping
  • Drive back to Kolkata (arrive evening)