Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Breakfast at Farakka Barrage

Farakka Barrage was our first halt on our way to Lava from NJP via Gorubathan. We stopped there near a road side make shift food stall to have egg toast and tea.

Farakka Barrage is a barrage across the Ganges River, located in the Indian state of West Bengal, roughly 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the border with Bangladesh. Construction was started in 1960 and completed in 1974. The barrage was built to divert the Ganges River water into the Hooghly River during the dry season, from January to June, in order to flush out the accumulating silt which in the 1950s and 1960s was a problem at the major port of Kolkata on the Hooghly River.



While crossing the Farakka barrage.

They look quite happy: My fellow school friends and fellow travellers.

Taken from bottom of the Farakka Barrage.

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