Shankarpur
Shankarpur is a beach village located 14 km east of Digha in West Bengal, India.
Shankarpur is a beach village located 14 km east of Digha in West Bengal, India. It is also a regular fishing harbour. Shankarpur contains a number of temples.
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Where to eat
Hotel Sandy Bay serves good Bengali cuisine. Try their sea food - prawns, pomfret, bhetki, parse (a small sweet water fish - cooked whole with the bones - so you must use your hands to eat), rohu (a form of carp). Vegetarian food such as mochar ghonto (spicy young green bananas), aloo posto, aloor dum (Bengali style), Kashmiri aloo dum and cholar daal is also available.
From Wikivoyage: Shankarpur, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Shankarpur
- Airports
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 145 km · Biju Patnaik (BBI), 238 km
- Kolkata → Shankarpur131 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · ₹1,140–1,420
- Bhubaneswar → Shankarpur236 km · quickest by road, 5h 2m · ₹1,940–2,430
- Siliguri → Shankarpur570 km · quickest by road, 11h 40m · ₹4,760–5,950
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shankarpur
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Shankarpur. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFor the last 6 km into Mandarmani, there is a narrow but all-weather road, which takes you directly to the hotels and resorts, provided you travel in a car or jeep.
- Get inFrom Chawlkhola there are cycle-rickshaws and auto-rickshaw which you can take to Dadanpatrabar and/or Mandarmoni.
- Get inFrom Dadanpatrabar, you can again use rickshaws, but it is best to take the transport from Chawalkhola till Mandarmani since transport availability from Dadanpatrabar is very uncertain.
From Wikivoyage: Mandarmani, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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