This walk serves as a wonderful introduction to the city and takes the guests through the hows and whys of Calcutta helping them retrace the steps that gave birth to this city. Considered the Second city of the Empire, proud, elegant and so British…… many grand edifices were built in Calcutta back then. These buildings stand tall and stately. Some of which have withstood the vagaries of time, some striving to stay put and a few others which lie in glorious ruins. This walk is in an area which has the finest examples of colonial heritage and reminds one that the city of Calcutta was built on lines of London. Starting from The Lalit Great Eastern we show the buildings which are a part of Calcutta’s imperial legacy.

A tour which takes you through the histories of the germination, growth, and decadence of the “Babu” culture. A tour where we take you back in time to the city’s more glorious past, where the Babu culture was at its apex, a storytelling tour which transports one to the era where ostentatiousness reached its peak. Starting from the Marble Palace we wind our way through narrow lanes and by-lanes, seeing the various castles and mansions including the famed Jorasanko Thakur Bari. Liberal doses of anecdotes and history make this walk a must-do for people visiting Calcutta.

A walk of not more than five square kilometers in size but which is truly a microcosm of the world. An enigmatic walk in the “Grey Town” where you can see the melting pot of cultures that Calcutta is. Starting from the Anglo-Indian quarters in Bow Barracks, we explore the neighborhoods before proceeding to experience the cultures embedded in the Parsi fire temples, the Chinese temples, the Jewish synagogues, the Portuguese Cathedral and the Armenian Church all within a small vicinity. The guests would even get to taste local food and while strolling in the neighborhoods soak in the hustle bustle of these markets and absorb the culture of these places and their natives move on with their daily lives. 

In this walk, we cover Kumartuli, the traditional potter’s quarters in the north of the city. The idols created here are not only supplied in the city but also exported. It is a wonder to watch the making of the idols all do deftly and thus being in Calcutta this surely cannot be missed. This tour also takes the guests to a traditional Thakur Bari of the area, 250-year-old Shiva temples and the tour culminates with a visit to a ghat where idol making starts with the scooping of the Ganga maati from the river bed and also ends with the immersion of the idols after the festivities.

This walk takes you through the old cemeteries of Kolkata. We'll visit South Park Street Cemetery, the largest non-Church cemetery outside Anglo-American world in the 19th century! We will identify different types of grave architecture. Learn about life and death in colonial Calcutta and the graves of its pioneering personalities, and know who the 'most beautiful girl in Calcutta' was in the late 18th century and a hair-raising mission of a British envoy to Tibet.