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Jan 15th, 2005, 00:57
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| Wanderer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: UK
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|  Living in Calcutta this year... Hi There, I'm going out to Calcutta in March this year and I will be working and living there for around 4 months. Has anyone got any suggestions of what to see and do, what's special in Calcutta and must be seen, etc? Any advice would be great as I'm cluless at the moment! Also hope to get up north to the mountains at some point and spend some time off in the Himalayas, any advice for this would be great too. Thanks, James  |
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Jan 15th, 2005, 02:02
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| Future Member
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| hi James, er.. would you mind telling us what kind of job you have got? and where your office is likely to be... then suggestions should come in swiftly.. where to put up, what to see, etc etc. |
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Jan 17th, 2005, 15:35
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| Wanderer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: UK
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| Hi there, Not 100% sure of location yet, I do know I will be about 50mins drive out of the city center though. I'm working in IT out there for around 4 to 6 months and should be able to explore at the weekends and hope to take a week or more off at the end of this time to get up north. Thanks, James |
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Jan 17th, 2005, 16:35
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Calcutta
Posts: 2,555
|  Welcome Hello James, Welcome to IM, India, Calcutta.  The special thing in Calcutta is its people. According to your profile you have worked in different working environments, I’m sure you are going to experience something different in next 4 months. You will feel some personal attachment, some emotional bond, which is generally (not absolutely) missing in professional life, here in your workplace in Calcutta. Apart from this, the ‘Queen of Hills’ – Darjeeling and Sikkim are among the must see items. For weekend (specially, when a Friday / Monday becomes a holiday) trips Sundarban is there and …... Ohhh come on James, we are not going to tell you all the secrets right now! Come down to India, may be you will ask for a few months extension from your authority  .- Somnath |
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Jan 17th, 2005, 19:51
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| Wanderer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: UK
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|  Hi Somnath, Thanks for your reply! I look forward to finding out a lot of this for myself in the near future! Thanks for the tips for Darjeeling, Sikkim and Sundarban - I'll take a look at these places for sure.. |
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Jan 17th, 2005, 20:10
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: nasik, maharastra
Posts: 1,261
| try out the tourism department - they offer sight seeing tours. short duration and longer versions. their office is in dalhousie square. you will arrive in march and would be there for four to five months. good period to move around. happy journey. |
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Jan 17th, 2005, 20:14
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| hi James, i suppose you will we working in a part of calcutta called "salt lake city". its best you seek accomodation there itself or thereabouts. as a start, you can look through these web pages. there are plenty more. http://pages.cthome.net/india2/ http://www.sofo.uni-stuttgart.de/%7Eganguly/calcutta/ http://www.colinbeveridge.com/travel...asp?article=16 http://edwebproject.org/india/journal.1123.html http://userpages.umbc.edu/%7Eachatt1...ta/indmus.html http://www.travelmasti.com/domestic/wb/cal_places.htm http://userpages.umbc.edu/~achatt1/Calcutta/marbel.html for darjeeling i will give the links to 2 articles. for webpages on darjeeling and sikkim just google. http://www.zubin.com/darjeeling/ http://www.billwood.com/travel/darjeeling/ |
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