We reached Raichak on 25-May in night after leaving Chandbali.
The last four days have been typical resort days. We spent lots of time loitering around Hugli (a distributary of Ganga) seeing the big ships, playing chess and swimming aimlessly. All said and done, the place is beautiful and service is very good. If you are planning to visit Kolkata, and want to live in a good RCI resort, Ffort raichak is your destination.
The resort Holiday Club, Ffort Raichak is really good. It is supposed to be the biggest resort in Eastern part of India. Not only is the location and building very good but the service is excellent. We checked in night and the next morning the resort manager, Mrs Bose visited us in the morning to check if we were comfortable! One of the facilities persons, Mr Phillip had the biggest smile I have ever seen.
Well, we did go to Kolkata. Ate some really good sweets in a place called Garia Hat, which reminds me of Pune's Laxmi road. We would have been completely lost had it not been for Shubhojit uncle, a person in my dads badminton group. The sweets in this place are too good. The sinful Rosogola, Malai Chop and Kheer-kadam is a must. Mishti dohi is also an excellent sweet.
Eating apart, we also saw the Queen Victoria memorial. It reminded me of the TajMahal. Its main beauty is not in its geometry, but in the intense carvings on its walls.
The Birla planetarium however was everything but impressive.
Fort like structure of hotel Ffort Raichak
Clock Tower at our hotel
Sunset at Ganga behind the hotel
Commuting to villages near Kolkata
Improvised auto rickshaw
I had never seen this many ambassador cars before!
Who is sitting below my horse and troubling it?
Victoria Memorial
Another view of Victoria Memorial
A tram in Kolkata
Sunset over Ganga
