West Bengal

Best travel reports from West Bengal

Site preparation is in full swing.

It's already December and soon half of my time here in India will be over. Suddenly, the weeks are passing by quickly, almost too quickly, because there is still a lot to do....

From the North to the East

On-site at the Nehemia Center There is currently a lot going on here since the last update. It's been almost three weeks and I have arrived at the station, high in the...

In northeast India

From Myanmar, we flew to Kolkata. The 4.5-million metropolis offered a crash course in the country and its people. It was deafeningly loud with constant honking and wonderfully...

Volunteering in the service of Mother Teresa

The two weeks of my volunteering at the Missionary of Charity are slowly coming to an end. They were two weeks that have definitely enriched my life, that were educational and...

Darjeeling

Hi guys, as you can read from the title we arrived in the famous area Darjeeling. There we spent our Last days in India. At the First day we drove with the Toy Train, which is...

26.06.2018 - 10.07.2018 the first two weeks in India - Kolkata, Puri, Konark, Bhubaneswar, Koraput

The last two weeks were intense. India is overwhelming for all senses and quite exhausting. On our last trip five years ago, we spent two months in India and yes, it was also...

Transit in Kolkata - West Bengal

Hello, So the journey continued. I took a rickshaw to the train station in Bhubaneswar, where I boarded the 'Doronto Express' once again in the sleeper class. With a delay of...

Calcutta - the first culture shock of my life

I can't believe that I actually fulfilled my personal goal - to create a blog at the beginning of my (for now) three-month trip and actually write down my first impressions on...

29 Tag Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Kolkata

Namaste, one last time I woke up on a train of the Indian Railways and one last time today I plunged into the chaos of Indian cities. And the latter naturally made a big effort...