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Spreading over a series of densely forested islands and saline water channels, Sunderbans is home to spotted deer, wild pigs, monkeys, herons, kingfishers, white bellied eagles and almost 270 Royal Bengal tigers. |
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| Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily categorized and documented for scientific purposes. Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material. Botanical gardens may also serve to entertain and educate the public, upon whom many depend for funding. However, not all botanical gardens are open to the public: for example the Chelsea Physic Garden. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| St.Paul's Cathedral :- | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. Paul's Church opened on September 14, 1834, and it suffered a disastrous fire on Ash Wednesday February 21st, 1844. The church re-opened on February 25th, 1846. St. Paul's Cathedral is the oldest Church in London, Ontario, and one of our Community's Historic Properties. On Easter Sunday, April 16th, 2006, a Heritage Designation Plaque was unveiled outside the Great West Doors. The historical reasons for this designation can be viewed at Heritage Designation. Further information on the chronology of events since 1822 is detailed at Chronology. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Digha :- | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Known as Brighton of East – Digha is the most popular sea resort located around 187 kms from Calcutta attracting tourists throughout the year with its hard beach where one can drive on the beach during low tide. Bathing is advisable only during the low tide. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Murshidabad :- | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Murshidabad, the last capital city of independent Bengal, is situated on the banks of the Ganges river. Murshidabad has been named after Bengal's Nawab Murshid Kuli Khan. The Nawab shifted the capital of Bengal to Murshidabad in 1705. |
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| Tarapith :- | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tarapith is a small town near Rampurhat in Birbhum district of West Bengal in India. It features a Hindu temple that attracts tourists. The distance from Rampurhat is approximately 6 kilometers. |
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| In the year 1847, the wealthy widow queen Rani Rasmani prepared to go upon a long pilgrimage to the sacred city of Banaras to express her devotions to the Divine Mother. In those days there was no railway line between Calcutta and Banaras and it was more comfortable for rich persons to make the journey by boat rather than by road. We are told that the convoy of Rani Rasmani consisted of twenty four boats carrying relatives, servants, and supplies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Victoria Memorial :- | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On Vancouver Island in Ross Bay Cemetery, British Columbia, is the Victoria Memorial. Ross Bay Cemetery is located east of teh city centre of Victoria in Fairfield, at 1524 Fairfield Road. |
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| Gandhi Ghat :- | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Raj Ghat, a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi is a simple black marble platform that marks the spot of his cremation on 31 January 1948. It is left open to the sky while an eternal flame burns perpetually at one end. It is located on the banks of the river Yamuna in Delhi, India. A stone footpath flanked by lawns leads to the walled enclosure that houses the memorial. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nabadwip :- | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nabadwip is a small town on the banks of the Hooghly river. The city has several temples and is an important religious center in West Bengal. One of the main attractions is the Sonar Gouranga temple. Nabadwip is famous as the birth place of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. |
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| Fort Williams, home to a beautiful oceanfront park and Portland Head Light, the most photographed lighthouse in the world, was built over 100 years ago. The fort at Portland Head, which was Portland Harbor's main defense for many years, was officially named on April 13, 1899, for Major General Seth Williams, a native of Augusta who served in the Civil War. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bishnupur (or Vishnupur) in the Bankura district is like a breath of fresh air after Kolkata’s heat and dust. The verdant fields you traverse to get to this town, just 151 km away, serve as a harbinger of the surprise that is Bishnupur. This town of terracotta temples and man-made lakes echoes with the history of the Malla rulers who made it their 16th century capital. |
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| Unlike the temples and monuments built out of marble and stones brought from far-off places, the basic construction material for the Bishnupur temples was the local red soil. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The next time you need a break from Kolkata’s delirious pace, turn your thoughts to Shantiniketan, 213 km away. A visit to this university town will put you in tune with Tagore’s dream of peace, of harmony between nature and nurture. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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