If you are looking for an easy hasten from the ever increasing hustle race of the city of joy without emptying your wallet worthy, then Bakkhali is an ideal weekend destination. Located honest 130 kms away from Kolkata (Calcutta, India), Bakkhali can be reached within 4 hours easily by road. It is a graceful beach covered with white sands and less crowded than common sea beaches around Kolkata. Hotels are plenty and reasonably priced; all you need to have a very strong bargaining capacity. There is not mighty to do at Bakkhali, but witnessing a sunset on the beach with your loved ones can be an unforgettable experience. Hope this Bakkhali Weekend fade Tips will acquire your spin more palatable.

Day I – We took a 7AM instruct plot Transport bus from Esplanade Bus Depot, Kolkata to Bakkhali. It charged us around Rs.70 each. An gripping piece of this poke was crossing the river arrive Namkhana on a barge. The bus itself is transported from one side of this river to the other on this barge. The process was a bit time though-provoking but gave us the opportunity to have a expeditiously saunter around the set and to consume some intelligent photographs of fishing boats and other port related activities. The bus finally reached our destination around 11AM.

We booked a paddled van from the bus space to perceive for reservations in different hotels. Fortunately or you can say, unfortunately we got accommodation at a hotel honest 5 minutes walking distance away from the bus position and a 10 minutes walking distance away from the beach. The room was broad enough with two double beds letting four of us having our contain allotment of state. We paid Rs.500 for the room and it was a decent bargain.

By 1PM, we reached Frazerganj port to experience the astonishing boat slide on the Bay of Bengal. A paddled van took us to the port from our hotel within 20 minutes. We bargained with one of the boatman and finally hired an entire motorized boat for ourselves. The deal was to bewitch us to the confluence point which was around 2/3 kms away in the sea. The sea was a bit rough and with mangroves on one side and endless horizon on the other, we didn’t need anything else to secure high. But we enjoyed our chilled beer, which at that time had almost lost its coldness, thoroughly. We convinced the boatman to remove us to some solitary island for some extra bucks. And voila, he agreed. We traveled couple of more kilometers further and landed on Mousumi Island. The beach was quite muddy but there were absolutely no people around us. It was more like having a part of our hold private beach. We returned around 3:30PM to Frazergunj Port. The entire trek cost us around Rs.400 (for boat) and Rs.150 (for the boatman) .

After having lunch advance a shrimp roadside hotel, we headed for the Bakkhali beach to relish the glowing evening. The sunset was shining on the beach, and with decreasing sunlight the water level started increasing. It was a well spent evening until we decided to return to our room around 8:30PM. Before that we bought a chicken and gave it to a restaurant to cook it for ourselves. You can rob your raw food (meat/ fish) and give it to any hotel for cooking at a very reasonable cost. The food arrived in our room around 10:30AM and we had a ball having chicken curry with roti and to accompany there was the deadly combination of rum-coke. Day I ended very hasty as we were too tired to do anything post dinner.

Day II – We again headed towards the Bakkhali beach around 8:30AM after having our breakfast. After spending around two and half hours in the water, we finally came help to our hotel. We left the hotel at 12PM and headed towards Henry Island by a mini van. Henry Island can be reached within 15-20 minutes from there. We also explored the Beach of Henry Island which was entirely people-less at that time. Finally the same mini van took us to Namakhan around 2:30PM. The Bakkhali-Henry Island-Namkhana sprint cost us around Rs.300. We crossed Namkhana and took a notify jabber to Kolkata. We were home by 6 in the evening.

critical Bakkhali Weekend fade Tips and Suggestions

* An ideal weekend destination but can be very crowded during peak seasons, holidays.
* Hotels are very cheap but you have to bargain a lot.
* There is no ATM in Bakkhali
* exhaust lots of sun cream and body protection solutions while out in the sun.
* The water at Bakkhali is not really generous.
* It is advisable to purchase your believe transport.