Culture and heritage are Bengal’s travel destinations this winter
The HinduCulture and heritage seem turning out to be primary destinations in West Bengal this winter, with many inveterate travellers exploring their own backyards to find there are places worth a short vacation. “If one is to curate a trail combining Bengali culture and heritage, districts such as Birbhum, Bankura, Malda and Murshidabad adorn the front row during the winter months,” said Maitrayee Paul, a public servant who not only travels within Murshidabad on work because she is posted there but who is also exploring its corners as a traveller. If you are an admirer of handcraft, artistic heritage, rustic landscape of red soil, soulful Baul songs and Bengal’s own terracotta temples, then that’s an ideal escape,” Mr. Sarkar said. “On one hand, it has been the land of Shakti worship, with the Tarapith temple, since time immemorial, on the other hand, it has some of the most magnificent terracotta temples — in Surul, Supur, Ilambazar, Ganpur — showing enthronement of Ram; Shiva playing the tanpura, Parvati nursing Ganesha.
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