SUDDER STREET in CALCUTTA

Here pausing with Volunteers from Spain
eating street foods on Sudder Street

Another Restaurant I used to eat
on Sudder Street

Any volunteer in Calcutta will go through one famous street called Sudder Street. One day during a sharing activity that is always done with a nun who speaks your language every Sunday at Mother's House, I have suggested that Sudder Street be named Volunteer Street. That can only be possible if I submit the request to the Calcutta Municipal Corportation.

Sudder Street is famous for, it houses many Restaurants (Street food stands and Conventional Restaurant). It also is a land of many Money Exchanges agencies (Please I suggest any volunteer once in Calcutta not to exchange money at the Airport but do it on Sudder Street) who offer high rate compare to Airport. For example a US dollar costs INR 44.50(Indian Ruppees) compare to INR 41.50 that you will get at the Airport. A EURO is  INR 66 compare to less you can received at the Airport. Also you finds here many Travel Agencies that book Train, Air and Bus tickets to different cities in India. This is where many volunteers book their tickets when they want to visit high touristic spots like Taj Mahal, Darjeeling, Varenasse, New Delhi, Bombay and other.

One of the bedrooms at Galaxy Hotel

Sudder Street is full of hotels of which the most known and cheapest ($3 a night) is Hotel Maria. Here you can find dormirtories and single room with price ranging from $3-$7. The sanitation here is compared to a third world country so prepare for it. There is also Galaxy Hotel that I like the most. It is mostly double bedrooms with prices ranging from INR 300 and INR 400 for a single($6-7). I recommend this one. It is clean and safe and the owner is very nice.

Entrance of Fairlawn Hotel
one of the expensive



So, I recommend hotels like Galaxy, Maria, Paragon, Modern Lodge for a volunteer who is coming in Calcutta for a long stay. These hotels are the most populated by volunteers, tourists and are cheap.



Veg Sandwich that I love to eat at
Spanish Cafe



Restaurants well known on Sudder Street are Blue Sky Cafe and Spanish Cafe. These restaurants offer good Thailand, Indian and Western foods. There are also other good one besides the above-mentionned who provide good and clean foods. On Sudder street, there are also many shops to buy Indians dresses and any item you need. The New Market, which is one of the biggest in the area provides a variety of shops such as an Under ground Mall, shoes and dresses, and Hotels. The Blue Beyond or Lindsay hotel provides a restaurant at its roof from where you can view Calcutta in the night, it is romantic to have a date there. One can live on Sudder Street without needing to go some where else. I will really like the Municipality of Calcutta to name it Volunteer street. Sudder Street is always busy. This is also where

Muesli Fruit Curd the breakfast that
I always took either at Spanish or Blue
Sky Cafe

                              yellow cabs are stationned to wait volunteers leaving to the Airport. It cost INR 250 for a yellow cab to drive a passenger to the Airport.

A yellow ready to pick up a volunteer at
Galxy Hotel to the Airport

Sudder street will never forgotten by any volunteer who have come to Calcutta. Let it known that not only volunteers live on Sudder street, also people coming from around the World mostly the bag-packers enjoy living here while visiting Calcutta since it has cheapest hotels. Some can be there for a short stay and move to another city afterward.