10 Reasons Why Kolkata is the Best Place to Be During Durga Puja

Along with the biriyani, phuchkas and rolls, the new added attraction during this phase is the ‘Bhog’. Bhog implies the food and sweets that is offered to the Goddess of Power during the course of the festival. Usually in rest of the country you get it only on the eighth day of Durga Puja. Here you can relish it all through the five days, with both vegetarian and non vegetarian variety. Some Bengali families even offer fish delicacies to the deity. So, being in Kolkata definitely means a pause to your strict diet and a lot of over eating.

Pandal refer to temporary set up to venerate the life size Durga idols. Kolkata in all has 5000 such pandals constructed with artistic décor and lights during this celebration. Some of them are extremely popular especially in South Kolkata for the excellent themes and ideas that they put up every year. Walk around the city and you will find maps as banners guiding your way to the next best pandals.

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