Kolkata: Full Day Private Tour & Howrah Bridge with Pickup

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Duration8h

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

Kolkata in One Day: Mother Teresa's House, the Ganges Bridge & Colonial Landmarks

You spend a full day moving through Kolkata's main landmarks — Mother Teresa's House, Howrah Bridge, St. John's Church, Marble Palace, and Victoria Memorial — without arranging transport, timing stops or navigating yourself. The private car and English-speaking guide mean you learn the history as you go, and the day ends with time in the city's markets before hotel dropoff.

Step-by-step itinerary

Full day Kolkata city sightseeing

Pickup at 9:30 AM
Visit Mother Teresa's House and tomb
Visit Nirmal Hriday where Mother Teresa lived
See Howrah Bridge over the Ganges
Visit St. John’s Church and founder's grave
Tour Marble Palace and antiques
Visit Victoria Memorial museum
Explore New and Old Market
Drop off at hotel

The Experience

The pickup happens at 9:30 AM — your hotel, air-conditioned car waiting, guide already there with a bottle of water for you. From that moment you're moving through Kolkata without thinking about directions or timing, which is the whole point of a private tour. The first stop is Mother House, where Mother Teresa's tomb sits in a quiet room, and then Nirmal Hriday, the home where she and her sisters worked. It's not a museum performance; it's a real place people still use, and the guide explains what happened there without the usual tour-script feel.

After that comes the Howrah Bridge — the third longest in the world, built over the Ganges, and honestly it's busier and more chaotic than photos suggest. Your guide points out the river below, the traffic pattern, the way the bridge connects Kolkata to Howrah on the other side. Then you're at St. John's Church, the oldest British building in the city, with wood and marble inside and the grave of Job Charnock, who founded Kolkata. The Charter of Calcutta was signed on a round table that's still there. It's the kind of detail that sticks with you — not because it's dramatic, but because it's specific and real.

The Marble Palace comes next, set in a green space with sculptures and filled with antiques from China and paintings by Rubens. It's the kind of place that feels like someone's private collection you're being allowed to walk through. Then Victoria Memorial, the marble structure built for Queen Victoria — it's a museum now, so you see paintings, miniatures, statues, the whole arc of Indian history laid out. By afternoon you're in the New and Old Markets, walking around where locals shop for cotton and silk saris, and you can actually see how the city moves when you're not rushing. Your guide is there the whole time, answering questions, pointing things out, and at the end of the day they drop you back at your hotel.

What’s included

Private air-conditioned vehicle for the full day.
hotel pickup at 9:30 AM and dropoff at the end.
English-speaking guide accompanying you throughout.
bottled water.
visits to Mother House (Mother Teresa's tomb and Nirmal Hriday), Howrah Bridge, St. John's Church, Marble Palace, Victoria Memorial, and time in Kolkata's New and Old Markets.

Good to know

Easy physical level

Operated by India Tour Packages | Tours & Activities

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to see Kolkata's main landmarks in one day without arranging your own transport, timing each stop, or navigating the city yourself — the private car and guide handle all of that, so you focus on the places and the history.