Shantiniketan is a small town near Bolpur in the Birbhum district. Shantiniketan is known better as the Treasure Trove of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and home to a university town, Visva-Bharati. Tagore founded an Ashram here in 1863 and became the initiator of the Brahmo Samaj. The Shantiniketan campus is adorned with splendid sculptures, frescoes, murals, and paintings of Rabindranath, Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar, Binodbehari Mukhopadhyay. It is also popular for its Baul Singers and fairs and festivals like Poush Mela (December), Joydev Mela (January), Basanta Utsav (Holi)( in March ).
Shantiniketan can be visited at any time of the year. The climate is moderately warm, like Kolkata, with summer temperatures at around 34-38ºC and winter at 12-15ºC. July and August see heavy rainfall.
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State: West Bengal
Distance From Shamsabad Agra: 1158 Km.
Min Temp: 24.98℃
Max Temp: 37.76℃
Weather: PARTLY CLOUDY STARTING IN THE AFTERNOON.
Altitude : 63 Meters
| Number of People: | 32 |
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| Number of Days: | 32 |
| Number of Rooms: | 23 |
| Rent Per Room Per Day: | 23 |
| Number of People: | 32 |
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| Budget per Person: | 32 |
| Total Budget | 23 |
| Total Expenses | 1212 |
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