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Durga Puja & Bengali Tables

Kolkata's pandals, and the city's oldest dining rooms.

Duration10 days
Best timeOctober, timed to Durga Puja
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The route

Kolkata

Park Street's legacy restaurants, a home-cooked maach-bhaat, and Durga Puja's pandal-hopping circuit with food built in at every stop.

Kolkata

Durga Puja

Pandal-hopping through Kolkata's biggest festival, between sittings at the city's oldest dining rooms.

Day by day

Day 1–3

Kolkata — the table

Park Street's legacy dining rooms and a home-hosted maach-bhaat (fish and rice) — Bengal's everyday classic, done properly.

Day 4–6

Durga Puja pandal-hopping

The pandal architecture circuit at the heart of Durga Puja, with food stops built into the route rather than an afterthought.

Day 7–9

Sweets and side trips

A visit to sandesh and rasgulla makers, plus optional day trips into rural Bengal or the Sundarbans on request.

Day 10

Send-off

A final dinner and airport drop.

What's included

  • Durga Puja pandal circuit with a local guide
  • Home-hosted Bengali meal
  • Visit to sandesh and rasgulla makers
  • Your dedicated Travel Manager, on WhatsApp for the whole trip

What it costs

Quoted per journey

No two of these run the same way. What it costs depends on your dates, how many of you are travelling, where you want to stay, and how much of the circuit you want. Tell your Travel Manager what you have in mind and you get a written quote for exactly that — with no planning fee on top.

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