Why Do People Go to Gangasagar Tour Package from Kolkata India ?

सब तीर्थ बार बार- गंगासागर एक बार

The Gangasagar fair and pilgrimage is held annually on Sagar Island’s southern tip, where the Ganges enters the Bay of Bengal. This confluence is also called Gangasagar or Gangasagara. Near the confluence is the Kapil Muni Temple. The Gangasagar pilgrimage and fair is the second largest congregation of mankind after the triennial ritual bathing of Kumbha Mela.

In 2007, about 300,000 pilgrims took the holy dip where the Hooghly meets the Bay of Bengal on the occasion of Makar Sankranti. Almost five hundred thousand pilgrims thronged Gangasagar in 2008. For the rest of the year, about 500,000 people come to the island. According to reports on 14 January 2018, 18-2 million people visited Gangasagar in 2018, against 1.5 million in 2017.

Transport – Ganga river launch service in Gangasagar From Kolkata, Diamond Harbour Road (NH-12) runs south around 90 km to Harwood Point, near Kakdwip, where a ferry runs to Kachuberia at the north end of the Gangasagar. The Panchyat Samity maintains a parking area near the ferry landing. The ferry travels about 3.5 km across a distributary of the Ganges river (also known as Hooghly River or Muriganga river locally) to reach Kachuberia. Small boats also cross from Harwood Point to Kachuberia. Private cars and buses travel roughly 32 km to the pilgrimage site at Gangasagar. From the pilgrimage parking area, the Kapil Muni Temple is about 200 meters and the Gangasagar confluence is about 700 meters.

Gangasagar is a place of Hindu pilgrimage. Every year on the day of Makar Sankranti (14 January), hundreds of thousands of Hindus gather to take a holy dip at the confluence of the river Ganges and Bay of Bengal and offer prayers (puja) in the Kapil Muni Temple. We arrange Gangasagar tour from Kolkata make comfortable for pilgrime. Ideal time for travel, especially during Makar Sankranti (mid-January) – the holy dip and Gangasagar Mela attract thousands of pilgrims.