Explore Orissa

Day 01 Arrive Kolkata

Fly from London Heathrow to Kolkata. Arrive Kolkata and transfer to your hotel for one night

Day 02 Kolkata – Bhubaneshwar

Enjoy a half day sightseeing tour of Kolkata including Visit the flower market. Victoria Memorial, St. Paul's Cathedral and the Museum...

Kolkata is a city of glaring contrasts: a curious blend of the old and the new, partly feudal, partly born out of growing urbanization, partly un-definable. It is a medley of the east and the west, a graft of a European city imposed on the Asian landscape that gives Kolkata its bewildering charm, confusion and excitement. Being just about 300 years old, Kolkata hardly has many great historical monuments. Perhaps, the oldest remembered is the site where the Alight Temple now stands. Today Kolkata is the largest city in India with a population over 10 million and boasts of India's first ever Metro rail system. It is a city that shocks on first impression but eventually the visitor falls in love with it. The sightseeing of the city includes a visit to the Victoria Memorial, Kolkata's most imposing and monumental dream in marble opened by the Prince of Wales in 1921 and often called the "Taj" of the British Raj, St. Paul's Cathedral and the Indian Museum, the largest in India, with one of the best collections of Indian art.
Afternoon transfer to Howrah railway station for train to Bubaneshwar.
2842 -Coromandal exp -1425 / 2123 – First Class Air Condition
Arrive Bhubaneswar and transfer to your hotel for two night
Rest of the day is at leisure

Day 03 Bhubaneshwar

Enjoy a full day excursion to Konark, Puri, Jagannath Temple and Pipli.
The great 13th-century Sun temple of Konark is 33km north-east of Puri. The temple was conceived as a chariot for the sun god, Surya, and includes 24 gigantic carved-stone wheels, seven mighty horses and elaborate erotic carvings.

One of the four 'Dhams' -Puri- is situated on the shoreline of the Bay of Bengal and is just 60 kms from Bhubaneshwar. Puri is blessed with Golden sand beaches for which it has been famous all over the world. Though life here revolves around the Jagannatha Temple, the place has been attracting tourists who love to swim in the sea and laze around on its golden sands. The beaches of Puri show divergent colours- calmness gives peace to mind while the crashing breakers remind of the turbulent life within the calmness. The sunrays falling on seawater gives the illusion of a rainbow on water surface.

By the time, the Lingaraja temple was built; the Jagannath cult had become widespread, throughout Orissa. This is exemplified by the fact, that the presiding deity, here, is the Svayambhu Linga - half Shiva, half Vishnu, a unique feature of the temple.