The city of Calcutta is perhaps India at its fascinating best and worst . The city with its chaos,crowds and innate charm can be criticised or liked but never ignored.

Your tour of the City of Joy starts with a visit to one of the best museums in India if not in Asia, the Indian Museum. The museum has a fascinating collection of meteorites fossils and some fine examples of Buddhist Gandharan Art.

The next stop on your tour is the Victoria Memorial the white marble structure built in honour of Queen Victoria and inaugurated in 1921 by the then Prince of Wales.

Proceed on to the Ochterlony Monument or the Shaheed Minar the 48m high tower dedicated to the memory of Sir David Ochterlony.

Your tour ends at the Birla planetarium , one of the largest in the world.