Digha 

187 km south east of Calcutta on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, Digha is a popular beach resort with a 6 km long beach. Fringed by graceful casuarina trees, Digha offers an enchanting view of the sunrise and sunset. The sea is calm and shallow for about a mile from the beach, making it quite safe for swimmers. 

Bakkhali 

132 km from Calcutta, quiet Bakkhali is the second popular sea resort of West Bengal. 

Site of the Gangasagar Mela, the largest fair in West Bengal, held on the occasion of Makara Sankranti, it draws lakhs of pilgrims from all over India. Sagar is 100 km from Calcutta. 

The terracotta capital of the Malla kings, for nearly a thousand years, Vishnupur was an important cultural centre with a distinct style of temple architecture, the main feature, being a single tower resting on a square building, with the curved roof of a Bengali hut. Scenes from Ramayana cover the facades of terracotta tiles in temples. Vishnupur is famous for its handicrafts which include silk, tussar, conch shell ware and exquisite terracotta toys. Vishnupur is 152 km from Calcutta. 

Perhaps the only university of this kind in the world, Shantiniketan was the brain child of the great genius Rabindranath Tagore. This open air International University has emerged as a universal centre of excellence for scholars and students of Oriental culture. Despite a distinct slant towards humanities and performing arts, the university also has an excellent faculty for post graduate and research studies in science. Shantiniketan is 136 km from Calcutta. 

65 km of lush widerness, mighty trees and tall grasslands, Jaldapara Sanctuary, 121 km from Siliguri is flanked by rivers Malangi and Torsa from east to west, and strewn with a number of perennial streams. It is the permanent abode of a large variety of wildlife, including the one-horned Indian Rhino. 

A marshy mangrove in the southern jungles of Bengal, Sunderbans is the largest estuarine forest in the world. This 'forest by the sea', where wild animals roam freely, is home to the legendary Royal Bengal Tiger. Approachable only by waterways, the Sunderbans is one of the prestigious Project Tiger Reserves in the country.