Shankarpur
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.
Getting to Shankarpur
Shankarpur is about 185 km from Kolkata Buses go to Shankarpur from Esplanade Bus Terminus in Kolkata. Shankarpur is near Digha and can be reached by taking any bus going to Digha. You need to get off the bus at Choddomile or Chaulkhola between Contai and Digha and just before Ramnagar. The sea beach is a 15-min ride by a car from Choddomile. You need to book a car to pick you up from Choddomile.
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.
Getting around Shankarpur the local way
- 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.
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