Rupanjana's Guidebook

Rupanjana
Rupanjana's Guidebook

Sightseeing

This is a must visit for its myriad wall arts, enthusiastic tourists taking photos and to buy knickknacks being sold by the street vendors very close to the Bhawan.
Kala Bhavana
This is a must visit for its myriad wall arts, enthusiastic tourists taking photos and to buy knickknacks being sold by the street vendors very close to the Bhawan.
Surul Rajbari Terracotta Temple Complex
This place is eerie and interesting. You will enjoy the local village, the ever smiling local faces and the walk to the river by the village.
Raipur Rajbari (Palace)
This place is eerie and interesting. You will enjoy the local village, the ever smiling local faces and the walk to the river by the village.
Distance from airbnb: 2 kms I love this place. They hold exhibitions from world renowned painters and you can go see the pieces. Ticket prices are nominal. This is where the real Shantiniketan happens to be. Best of works of different painters are exhibited regularly and they are an absolute delight to see.
Nandan Art Museum And Gallery
Distance from airbnb: 2 kms I love this place. They hold exhibitions from world renowned painters and you can go see the pieces. Ticket prices are nominal. This is where the real Shantiniketan happens to be. Best of works of different painters are exhibited regularly and they are an absolute delight to see.
Beautiful natural history museums. Opens at 9 am and closes at 5. Must visit for first time travelers.
Prakriti Bhavan
Amar Kutir Road
Beautiful natural history museums. Opens at 9 am and closes at 5. Must visit for first time travelers.
My personal favorite thing to do in Shantiniketan is to take a walk inside Deer park. It remains open from around 9:30ish to 4. In winters it is a delight to walk through the park, come across beautiful art work and spot deer.
Ballavpur Wildlife Sanctuary & Deer Park
My personal favorite thing to do in Shantiniketan is to take a walk inside Deer park. It remains open from around 9:30ish to 4. In winters it is a delight to walk through the park, come across beautiful art work and spot deer.
Museum of Tagore. They are starting to open it on 16th April, 2022.
Rabindra-Bhavana
Road around Ashram-Math
Museum of Tagore. They are starting to open it on 16th April, 2022.

Shopping

Distance from my place: 4 km Absolute favorite among both locals and tourists, this place manufactures and dishes out the best of sarees and household items at a very reasonable price.
10 polecane przez mieszkańców
Amar Kutir
Amarkutir Society Road
10 polecane przez mieszkańców
Distance from my place: 4 km Absolute favorite among both locals and tourists, this place manufactures and dishes out the best of sarees and household items at a very reasonable price.
This place is amidst a forest and absolutely recommended for the market which colourful, bustling and good quality clothes and accessories. Distance from my place: 5 kms
6 polecane przez mieszkańców
Targ Sonajhurir Sanibarer
Kobiguru Road
6 polecane przez mieszkańców
This place is amidst a forest and absolutely recommended for the market which colourful, bustling and good quality clothes and accessories. Distance from my place: 5 kms

Religious

Distance from airbnb: 14 kms This is one of the fifty-one peetha-sthans where Mahadeva on his tandaav with the body of his wife left a part and is considered pious for the hindus. I love this place for the serenity it offers and the prasad you get to have post offering puja. :)
Kankalitala

Food scene

This place dishes out delicious food at a reasonable price and in a decent ambience. Must try their omelettes and milk coffee.
Kasahara - The Cafe
This place dishes out delicious food at a reasonable price and in a decent ambience. Must try their omelettes and milk coffee.
It is actually a local tea shop. Locals go here for chatting and drinking tea and the rural setting is just too good.
Sonajhuri Tee Strol
Amar Kutir Road
It is actually a local tea shop. Locals go here for chatting and drinking tea and the rural setting is just too good.
For a bengali thali experience - I highly recommend this place.
Club Central
Pravat Sarani
For a bengali thali experience - I highly recommend this place.
Great momos- must visit. Opposite to Shantiniketan post office- in Visva Bharati campus.
Hridoye MoMo (হৃদয়ে মোমো)
Bolpur - Santiniketan Road
Great momos- must visit. Opposite to Shantiniketan post office- in Visva Bharati campus.
For their cakes, wraps and pizzas.
Amoli
For their cakes, wraps and pizzas.
Good food, ambience
The Mud House
Good food, ambience

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Getting around

Take a toto or electric rickshaw as often as possible. They are inexpensive and convenient. Bolpur is a safe town to explore and for the adventurous, it is recommended to walk and cover as much as possible. You will go past quaint houses, tea shops the sellers of which start very early in the morning and an absolute delight to watch. It is a place where you need to dig into the calmness and feel at home.
Jak zaoszczędzić

Take a toto- dont reserve it.

If you are going anywhere, figure out the nearest landmark, ask your toto to drop you there- then walk. It is mostly 10/20 inr per person that way.
Nie przegap

Learn or watch how to do quirky things

Go to a pottery studio- there are many good ones in Shantiniketan, check out the leather factory in amar kutir, or take up a small farming course in ruppur(smell of the earth farm). Do things you won’t generally do in a city.