India GOBoat ride Kolkata
Riding the last trams, and the tramcar museum
Take a slow wooden-benched tram down one of the two surviving routes into Esplanade, then step into a 1938 car parked at the depot that has been fitted out as a museum of the network.
from ₹5 · Trams run in the daytime at long intervals, so allow waiting time. Smaranika is open roughly 13:00–20:00 and closed Thursdays.
Crossing the Hooghly by commuter ferry in the morning
Board a launch at a river jetty with the morning crowd off the Howrah trains and cross the Hooghly in the morning light, with the Howrah Bridge close by and the ghats opening along the bank.
from ₹5 · Boats run from about 7:30–8:00 until 20:00–21:00, depending on the jetty; they are fullest in the weekday morning rush
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