Picture: Flower at Agri Horticulture Garden, Calcutta (Kolkata)

Address: 1 Alipore Road, Calcutta, 700 027, West Bengal, India
Phone Number: 91-33-2479-1713/0834
Fax: 91-33-2479-3580
Email: ashi@vsnl.com
Website: http://www.agrihorticultureindia.com/
Area of Garden: 21 Acres

Hours of operation: 7 am to 11 am and 1:30 pm to 5 pm. Closed on Wednesday upto 11 am, on Thursday only open from 9 am to 1:30 pm
Bus Route: No 31, 35

Picture: Flower at Agri Horticulture Garden, Calcutta (Kolkata)The Agri Horticultural Society of India was founded in 1820 by William Carey on the Alipore Road, Kolkata. The objective was to develop and promote agriculture and horticulture in India. In course of time, the Agri Horticulture Society has already made numerous unique achievements such as introduction of various new kinds of cereals, cash crops, fruits, vegetables, flowers and more. The society also received “Royal” award by King George V in 1935. The agri-horticulture society is oldest of it’s kind in Calcutta. Membership is available to all irrespective of sex, language, race and nationality. Sri BK Nahata is the current president of Agri-Horticulture Society and you may find other council members here.

The Society offers various kinds of activities such as “Cactus and Students show”, “Foliage Plants Show”, “Home Growing Competition”, “Annual Flower Show” and more. In addition to these various shows, they also have various seminars and exhibitions. They also offers diploma via 1 year educational training course which includes “home gardening”, “bonsai production”, “mushroom culture” and more.

They also have various products and services to meet your needs starting at the basic gardening level. They offer genuine plants, plant protection chemicals, manures and fertilizers, pots, flower vase, books and many more.

They have nice parks and fields with eye soothing flowers and trees. It would be great to visit Agri-Horticulture garden with children and family. Specially during the flowers show visitors from various parts of the world come to visit the society. You should visit their official website for more information. Their official website is very well organized with loads of information.

Picture: Flower at Agri Horticulture Garden, Calcutta (Kolkata)

Picture: Flower at Agri Horticulture Garden, Calcutta (Kolkata)

Picture: Citizen’s Park in Calcutta

Citizen’s Park in Calcutta (Kolkata) is situated next to Vitoria Memorial in Calcutta and within a walking distance from Rabindra Sadan. Citizen’s Park in Calcutta was opened on 8th May, 2005. defense minister Pranab Mukherjee inagurated the park at Kolkata. The park has large area containing about 11 acres land. The Citizen’s Park was built as an effort of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation to make the city more beautiful by transforming open lands into recreational areas. There are many attactions at the park including a “dancing fountain” that operates every evening. There are long walking trails where you can go for a run or walk during the morning or evening. The park also features an open air gallery selected military hardware, fighter and bomber aircraft, canons, armored vehicles, and tanks. The gallery also features the history of birth of Bangladesh from East Pakistan.

Victoria Memorial is just next to the park and an added attraction to go there. Weekends are good time to go to Citizen’s park with family for a picnic. You can watch some classic movies at Nandan at the evening before coming back to home. Numerous bus services are available to reach Citizen’s Park. If you are traveling in Metro you can get down at Rabindra Sadan Metro station and walk to the Park.

Picture: Water Fountain at the Citizen’s Park in Calcutta

Picture: Water Fountain at the Citizen’s Park in Calcutta

Picture: Walk way at the Citizen’s Park in Calcutta

Picture: Walk way at the Citizen’s Park in Calcutta

Picture: Water Fountain at the Citizen’s Park in Calcutta

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Address: Jheel Meel, Sector IV, Salt Lake City, Kolkata – 700 106
Phone Number: (91) 33- 2357 8101 – 05,
Fax : (91) 33 2357-2116
E-Mail : niccopark@niccoparks.com
Official Website: Here
Nicco park is an amusement park in Salt Lake City, Kolkata.

Before we even start talking about Nicco Park in Calcutta, lets check few awards they received in the past.

• “Business Excelleace Award” in Total Quality Management Contest (2004)
• Environmental Excellance Award from West Bengal Government (2004)
• Export Excellance Award (2005)

Well now you know that the park may of some interest to you. Lets din into some details now. Good part is they have their nice looking “official” website in a good and detailed description of the park. Here we will add our own experience at Nicco Park.

The Nicco Park was inagurated on 17th of March, 1989 and known by the mane of “Jhilmil”. Like “Calcutta Metro” – the first metro rail in India, Calcutta is proud to present the first amusement park in India too. The primary goal of the park was to emhance “educative entertainment” , “wholesome family recreation”, and “tourism”. The park contain about 40 acres area and more than 25 major attractions along with numerous indoor sprot complex such as pool, bawling, air hocky and more.

Foods from outside are not allowed in Nicco Park but they have nice bar and restautants inside. I could not find any information on current entrance fee, few years back it was about 25 or 30 rupees. Please send us more pictures and share your experience at NIcco Park at Calcutta (Kolkata).

Well, lets take a look at some of the amusements at the Nicco Park.

Water Chute at Nicco Park, Calcutta

Water Chute is one of the most popular recreation at Nicco Park. It is almost like a hydro coaster. You ride in a tube (about 4-6 people seating), ride to the top slowly and then slide down a really high slope through water back to ground level. It is recommended for patients with heart desease not to ride this one. It should be great on any hot/warm day while might be little chilli in winter time.

Tilt-A-Whirl

Tilt-A-Whirl is one of the best-known flat rides, designed to create fun and amusement in its riders and profitability for the amusement parks, fairs and carnivals in which it is commonly found. The Tilt-A-Whirl is a platform-type ride, consisting of seven freely-spinning cars that hold four riders each, which are attached at fixed pivot points on a rotating platform. As the platform revolves, parts of the platform are raised and lowered, and the resulting centrifugal and gravitational forces on the cars cause them to randomly spin in different directions and at variable speeds. The weight of passengers in these cars may intensify or dampen the spinning motion of the cars, adding to the random nature of the motion. Mathematicians call this random nature chaotic motion. Physicists Bret M. Huggard and Richard L. Kautz came up with a mathematical equation that approximates the motion of the Tilt-A-Whirl. Although it was without knowledge of chaos theory that Herbert Sellner invented the ride, in his patent text he clearly demonstrates an appreciation of chaos — “A further object is to provide amusement apparatus wherein the riders will be moved in general through an orbit and will unexpectedly swing, snap from side to side or rotate without in any way being able to figure what movement may next take place in the car.” (Source).

Water Coaster

Another water based ride in Nicco Park, Calcutta. There are two straight slides and one curved slide. This was first water slide of it’s kind in eastern India.

Cable Car

Another place to find cable car in Calcutta is the Science City. While the cable car ride at Nicco Park is probable better in terms of scenic view. They pass over a beautiful lake and the aerial view of the park is simply nice.

Paddle Boats:

We recommend going to Nalban Boating Complex for any boating fun. Paddle boats at Nalban is OKIE simply because smaller scale lake.

Moon Raker:
Mini roller coaster ride has no steep slope but long and easy to go.

Family Carausel:
This is a great horse ride for entire family! There are 64 different sizes horses to ride.

Cyclone – Roller Coaster
Cyclone is the biggest wooden roller coaster in India. The track is about 750 m long.

Pirate Ship:
Pirate ship is like a really huge pendulum. It gives wired feeling to your stomach that people get at deep sea!

The River Cave Ride
River cave ride is basically a journey through a dark cave in a boat. You will encounter many incidence such as volcano irruption or a dinosur!

Cruiser:
This is a smart monorail system.

Lazy River Ride:
Take a raft and go smooth!

Toy Train:
Toy Train is pretty nice and give you an oppertunity to see almost all of the Nicco Park area. Great for childrens.

Flying Saucer:
You have to ride it to enjoy the feeling of going away in space!

Striking Cars:
Love to hit? Try this one. This is one of my best ride at Nicco Park. Never ever miss this one!

There are some more that you can find at the part!

Paris comes to Calcutta

The Eiffel Tower at Nicco Park celebrates the spirit of French Revolution.

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Picture: Visitors enjoying gentle breeze from Hoogly at Millennium Park, Calcutta

A relatively new park in Kolkata, Millennium Park is situated along the strand on eastern shore of Hooghly River for a stretch of 2.5 km near Babughat and opposite to Koilaghat. The park consists of landscaped gardens and children’s amusement rides. It was opened along the riverside to provide a green area for Kolkata’s polluted waterway. It is a millennium gift from Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA/CMDA) inaugurated on 26 December 1999. (source)

Millennium Park is good to visit on a lazy evening when there is not too much time to go to some bigger place. Millennium Park gives you the oppertunity to sit at the banks of river Hoogly and enjoy the soothing cold breeze flowing over the river. However, park is usually very crowded with a high noise level. The park is located just beside ” Princep Ghat” in Calcutta. There are numerous small scale food stalls selling fast foods and cold drinks. A nice place for a quick stop with children too.

Picture: Statue at Millennium Park, Calcutta

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