HOW TO REACH BY AIRNearest Airport : Kolkata Airport - 133 KMsKolkata Airport is well connected with major cities of India. You can reach Garbeta from Kolkata Airport via Arambag. Roads to Gongoni are moderately good for drive.BY TRAINNearest Railhead : Garbeta Railway Station - 5KMsYou can hire a ricksaw to reach Gongoni.BY ROADA Journey of 133 KMs by Road from Kolkata via Arambagh. WHERE TO STAY Not many options to stay and fooding in Garbeta. You can get a few budget lodges around Garbeta College and Garbeta Station. It's better to stay at Bishnupur (25 KMs)Garbeta, West Bengal: while walking and sweating like in hell as temperature was close to 42 degree Celsius, we suddenly found a huge footprint on the red soil road. Asking the rickshaw puller, he replied "that's a footprint of an elephant" Feeling a bit scared, it then come to my mind one could have met big elephants with no rescue near me.Gongoni or gangani at Garbeta is an wonderful gorge of west bengal beside river shilabati. it looks like a smaller version of grand canyon of arizona, united states. its located in west midnapore district of west bengal, india. you dont need a vast climibing skill to reach there, its needs a moderate skills.But let me tell you the story from its beginning: After a short trip to Bishnupur at Bankura District, we boarded to a local train to Kharagpur to reach home. As it was Monday and no rush office hours, we did not book seats. We decided to get down to Garbeta, 25km from Bishnupur Town and wait for the next coming train. Checking the time schedule showed us that we had 2 hours free before the train to come. How to find something to do with 2 hours? We asked some local peoples about what nearby tourist destinations to spend that free time. All suggested us to go Gongoni, 5km away from the railway station. We decided to hire two rickshaws and started our journey to the mystery land of Gongoni.Garbeta is an important village town in West Midnapore. The village was very restless few years ago due to political crisis, but now the entire area is very peaceful. After 10 minutes we saw a new temple complex on the left side of the road.It's Shyam Temple, a lovely complex with a big community hall and a temple with the idol of Lord Shyam. Here you can get icy cool drinking water; helped us a lot during the trip. Gongoni is approx 3.5 KMs from this temple complex. We crossed Garbeta College and took the red laterite soil road on our left, where a pillar indicates you about Gongoni. We had to watch out because the zigzag road is so muddy due to heavy rain earlier.Then we felt literally astonished by what we saw!Nature meets with the Mother Earth here. It makes numerous structures by its own hand, which is out of reach of human activities and thus free of any alteration. Some looked like a natural hanging stage and some like the lobby of Titanic. Raise your hands and scream, it gives you heavenly feelings! What an amazing place! You don't need to go Arizona in United States to see Grand Canyon. Here stands Gongoni with its magnificent beauty, while the beautiful Shilabati River flows down with bunch of white Kash Grass on its riverbed.Gongoni is considered as a gorge and it's 100 times smaller than the Grand Canyon but you have to keep in mind that such landscapes are very very uncommon in Eastern India, so, locals consider it as a large canyon.From the riverbed of Shilabati, the gorge looked even more gorgeous. The Earth made this place with her own hand. You can see almost all examples of different type of soil erosion at this place.The Grand Canyon (Hopi: Ongtupqa; Yavapai: Wi:kaʼi:la) is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is contained within and managed by Grand Canyon National Park, the Hualapai Tribal Nation, and the Havasupai Tribe. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery. It is considered one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.[1] The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,000 feet or 1,800 meters).[2] Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted.[3] While the specific geologic processes and timing that formed the Grand Canyon are the subject of debate by geologists,[4] recent evidence suggests the Colorado River established its course through the canyon at least 17 million years ago.[5][6] Since that time, the Colorado River continued to erode and form the canyon to its present-day configuration.SOURCE FROM - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon AND DIFFERENT WEBSITE.

• published: 18 Dec 2013
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