Prinsep Ghat, Kolkata (2026): Timings, History & What to See
Prinsep Ghat has a specific quality on a February morning — empty ghats, the Hooghly carrying a light mist, and the kind of quiet that Kolkata almost never...
Kolkata, Kolkata Metropolitan Area, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Kolkata• West Bengal• India
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2017 was filled with travel plans, visiting new places and new stories to share. I got to visit the Philippines too! A short summary of the 2017 that went by! Completed around 8 trips, a couple of them were quite long ones. The last one of the year, a 3000 km long road trip for 10 days from Srinagar to Kolkata covering the breadth of North India, was one of my finest.