Discover Purba Medinipur
Accommodation in Purba Medinipur
Purba Medinipur offers more than one reason to travel: Digha’s long sandy beach sits alongside coastal towns with their own distinct character, temples and historic sites. When choosing a holiday apartment or house, a simple question can help: should the beach be the main focus of your stay, or would you also like to explore temples, history and fishing?
Sandy beaches and sea views
Digha has a seven-kilometre-long sandy beach with a gentle slope and soft waves. From the beach, you can see both the sunrise and the sunset.
Junput, Shankarpur and Tajpur each offer their own distinctive landscapes, too. Junput combines the beach with expansive sea views and rows of casuarina trees. Casuarina plantations shape the appearance of Shankarpur Beach; the town is also a fishing harbour. Tajpur is characterised by the many red crabs on its beach and dense stands of eucalyptus, tamarisk and casuarina trees. If you are choosing between coastal landscapes, you will find specific points of interest in each: sea views and casuarinas in Junput, a fishing harbour and beachside plantations in Shankarpur, and crabs and several tree species in Tajpur.
Temples and historic sites
For those interested in culture, Tamluk offers a different focus from the beaches. The former seaport is buried beneath river silt, which is connected to the large number of ponds and lakes in the city. This history and its many bodies of water give Tamluk a distinctive character, different from the coast. Barghobhima Temple is considered one of the 51 sacred sites of the Shakti Pitha cult. Visitors interested in religious traditions can include it in their selection of cultural destinations.
The Muktidham temple complex includes a main temple dedicated to the goddess Kali, idols of Radha-Krishna and Hanumanji, as well as a Lord Shiva temple. The different deities and temples within the complex make it a specific destination for travellers interested in religious architecture and spiritual traditions. The temples named here are dedicated to different deities and add another dimension to the region’s religious history.
The park adjoining Mahishadal Rajbari and its museum offers another way to spend the day: visitors can go boating there. So, alongside beaches and temple complexes, a park and an activity on the water offer different options for travellers.
Getting there and choosing a base
Purba Medinipur is well connected to the major cities of West Bengal, and roads link Kolkata to the district. Digha is connected to Kolkata by both road and rail. Buses to Shankarpur run from Dharamtala and Esplanade bus stations in Kolkata; Shankarpur can also be reached by bus from Digha. These connections are particularly useful if you are planning your stay around a specific destination: Digha offers a rail connection to Kolkata as well as road access, while specific bus connections are listed for Shankarpur.
Junput is nine kilometres from Kathi. The state fisheries department operates brackish-water fish farming and research there. Together with the fishing harbour in Shankarpur, this makes fishing another topic to consider alongside beaches and culture when choosing what you are interested in exploring.
When choosing a holiday apartment or house, the main consideration is which base you would like to use for your explorations. For further exploration, you can also include Tolakana among the places to visit.
For the broader travel overview: West Bengal.
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