Kolkata

Best travel reports from Kolkata

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...

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...