If you want to drive down to Junput from Kolkata (Calcutta) - the directions are as follows • • • • •
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Take the Second Hooghly Bridge Follow Kona Expressway ( 4-Lane road) At the Bombay Road crossing - take a left turn. Follow Bombay Road ( 4-Lane road) You can break at the A1 Plaza inside the Reliance petro station. It would be to your left - a 30-40 minute ride from the Kona Expressway - Bombay Road junction Keep straight till you cross the Rupnarayan river ( the bridge is one way and the river is wide) After you cross the river you will see the Kolaghat Thermal Power Station to your left Immediately after the Power Station is a junction - turn left towards Haldia . You have now hit the Haldia Highway (NH41) - the road is being 4 laned - but most of it is still a 2 lane road. Keep straight till you hit the Nandakumar crossing - you can identify it easily as the crossing has a wide round circle. Turn right at this crossing - you have now hit the Digha Road Digha Road is a 2 lane road - the road is smooth but narrow and the Buses drive at very high speed - so be extremely careful when overtaking. Follow Digha road - you will cross Narghat Bridge, Chandipur, Bajkul, Heria, Kanthi (Contai). At Contai crossing – turne left towards Junput 9K.M. from Contai Twon . The Resort ( The best place to stay but not near the beach) After nest you come to a junction where the road bifurcates - the right road leads to the Joar and Matsyagandha tourist lodges The left road takes you to the Shankarpur beach. Just before the beach an narrow unpaved road leads to the other hotels - Hotel Sandy Bay is the first. There are cheaper hotels down this road.