A Day in the City

You know your in Kolkata when your Taxicabs Are Yellow Ambassadors!

The Streets are flooded with them & these drivers know how to drive and HOW!!!! Not for the Weak hearted!  They can't stop honking, even on an empty street their horns are blaring away!
We visited the St. Pauls Cathedral which is quite close to the Victoria Memorial. The building was initiated by Bishop Daniel Wilson in 1839 and was completed in 1847. The structure is huge & beautiful.

 From here we decided to travel by the public bus & visit the famous Howrah Bridge. The bus ride was good fun. Kolkata has these mini buses with their conductors screeching loudly the destination to where the bus is heading so whoever wants to get in, can get in my hailing for the bus. Most of the buses have the word Pilot written on the bus drivers door, really they are pilots but the difference is they are maneuvering through clouds of bad traffic & people! The bus drivers are more rash than the taxi drivers!! Its like a crazy ride in an amusement park.

This bridge was originally a Pontoon bridge but then replaced in 1943 made into a Cantilever bridge which was called the New Howrah Bridge. In 1965 the bridge was officially renamed "Rabindra Setu", after the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore however still it is popularly known as the Howrah Bridge. This bridge was made to connect the cities of Howrah & Kolkata (Calcutta earlier) because of the increasing traffic across the Hooghly river. It is said that the Howrah Bridge is the sixth-longest bridge of its type in the world.

 Some Glimpses of the Howrah Bridge

Had a nice walk from one end of the bridge to the other. It was nice & breezy with a lovely view of the Hooghly River.