TOURS from KOLKATA - DIGHA

.. Going to Digha in the Winters is one of the experience which will alwyas remain memorable.
Two days trip near the warm winter beach was awesome.
History: Digha Originally known as Beerkul during Warren Hastings time was discovered in the late 18th century by the British. It is mentioned as the "Brighton of the East" in one of Warren Hasting's letters (1780 AD) to his wife.
My Experience :
..(Day 1) ...Started the journey on 24th December - The Christmas Eve. I left home at 6:15A.M in the morning. The cold was bearable, and weather was refreshing. Calcutta in the early mornings looks a very different city , than the regular hustle bustle of the day. Silent with few people on the roads, the janitors sweeping the roads, few buses - its a wonderdul exprerience. Newar the Maidan, the army horses were being trained - unfortunaly the bus was moving and I couldnt click any pictures.

Reached the station nearly by 7:00 A.M. The TRAIN - Guwahati Digha spcl, was supposed to reach the Howrah station by 7:45 A.M, and our group of eight was waiting at the station. We had our breakfast at FOOD Plaza,at the station - Dosas.
The train was Late and so we dilli dallied around trying to know the station better. After a long wait the train reached the station at 1:00 P.M.

So our journey began ... and we were quite excited .. we talked and chatted for a while, it was only a matter of four hours. The train stopped at a staion named Rajgoda ... and again the wait began. It stayed there for nearly more than half n hours, making us late by an hour to reach our destination. Dusk had set in, and we were becoming impatient. Ultimately the traine strated and we reached Digha by 5:30 P.m. It was already dark by then, so there was no opportunity for sight seeing. Digha station is a very small station, with only two lines for trains. We walked outside the station and hired two Van rickshaws for eight people. They charged us Rs 50 each to reach our Hotel at Old Digha.

We reached the hotel and was relieved to find that the rooms were vacant, as it was holiday season and there was a possibility of not finding any rooms. But as it was Friday, we got the rooms, though with a exorbitant price of Rs 750 for each room, as for off-season or weekdays the price goes down to 350Rs.

We went to our respective rooms and got fresh and left to go near the beach. The rocks at OLD DIGHA. The tide was quite high and the water was splasing with its full vigour, crashing on the rocks.
One by one , we all tried to get as near as possible and click pics with the water splashing behind us. It was real fun as we were trying not to get wet, yet be as close. We all shriekd and laughed as the water tried to wet us, and we tried to run away.

Some pics came out real good. There was a fuction going on on the eve of Christmas and suddenly the sky was filled with all sorts of illimination and fire crackers. And then, the MOON rose from the easters sky, as orange as a cheese cake. Though it was not a full moon, it was beautiful.

This is one of my best pictures... I feel so.

We stayed by the sea for nearly 9p.m and went back to the hotel to have dinner and seista.

Dinner was a full plate of rice, aloo fry, dal, gobi sabji and every bengali's favourite - ELISH (Hilsa fish).

We directly went off to sleep after dinner as we wanted to get up early the next day to see the sunrise at the sea.

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