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Kolkata: Indian museum

March 2, 2017August 19, 2017 Maya

The Indian Museum is the largest and oldest museum in India. It has rare collections of antiques, armour, ornaments, fossils, skeletons, mummies, and Mughal paintings. It was founded by the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Kolkata, in 1814. The founder curator was Nathaniel Wallich, a Danish botanist. It has six sections comprising thirty five galleries of cultural and scientific artifacts... Read More

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Kolkata

February 28, 2017July 10, 2017 Maya

It is a big city, megacity. Also called Calcutta (the official name until 2001). It is the capital city of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River (Ganges), it is the cultural, and educational center of East India, while the Port of Kolkata is India’s oldest operating port. Kolkata is third most populous metropolitan area in India. By my experience... Read More

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Kolkata: Castle of Queen Victoria

February 27, 2017August 19, 2017 Maya

The Victoria Memorial Is a large marble building in Kolkata… Which was built between 1906 and 1921. It is dedicated to the memory of Queen Victoria (1819–1901), and is now a museum. It has a big, full of flowers garden around the building and it is beautifully made from inside and outside. The construction has got some motive of Taj Mahal. The... Read More

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To Kolkata, Day 3

February 26, 2017March 19, 2017 Maya

12th of February, sunday Today we had to wake up early because of so many things to see. This time we had to go alone without our friends. We ate breakfast and fastly seated into a taxi. The first stop was the big Indian Museum. It was big and impressing. Only some parts, almost half of them were renovating. But it didn’t... Read More

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Santiniketan: Visit to Amar Kutir

February 6, 2017August 19, 2017 Maya

That day we wanted to see what is behind our house. There was a park with very unique trees. Called Shorea robusta. It grows only in area from Myanmar in the east to Nepal, India and Bangladesh. For me, park made of this trees looked strange and weird. When you come into a forest like that you can start to feel like an ant. So small.... Read More

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Santiniketan: Prakriti Art Museum

January 26, 2017February 2, 2018 Maya

This is a really interesting museum with statues made of wood. Each of them have a description and a tittle. It depends mostly on authors imagination. I can’t say much about them but you can see some of them here: Read More