Monday, 28 May 2018

021 Weekend Tour Shantipur

Shantipur is famous for Rash festival . It is very near to Kolkata. Santipur is a Municipal area under Ranaghat division of Nadia district West Bengal India. Shantipur celebrate several festival like dol festival ,Rash festival ect. But it is famous for Rash festival. Big big pandals, Grand procession, lighting, sound of different playing instrument change the ambience of Shantipur in those days. 



Rash festival last for 4 days, last day, people do Grand  procession with drums, Kirtan, 108 dhaki ,banjo and other different playing instrument  in the road . Hindu people in those days goes to very festival mode  with their festival, they visit pandals to pandals and visit the idols and the decoration. Idols are generally made of clay, different Portrait of a epics  with background decoration.





Goswami Bari, Modan Gopal Thakur Bari, Radha Bollova  are very well known for Rash festival. Another attraction of Santipur is  Santipur library, one of the interesting for ancient culture and heritage. 



Shantipur is very near to Kolkata, almost each hour, train from Sealdah to Santipur is available. Shantipur is well connected with Kolkata by road also, you can  go to Shantipur by SBSTC bus from Esplanade. To visit Shantipur Rash festival, We hired an Toto , it was around 2 hours to visit almost all pandals,  there are plenty of Toto  available  in the Shantipur. We hired   at Rs.200. Could not found any good restaurant in the Shantipur,we took our launch by at Fulia, the nearest railway station of Santipur.

Shantipur also famous for saree. Santipur  produce  the traditional Bengali tant sarees. You can purchase from the manufacturer all wholesaler also.


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