Kankalitala

Kankalitala is a temple-town in Birbhum-Murshidabad of West Bengal.

It is one of the fifty-one Shakti Peethas on the banks of Kopai River.

Getting There

Kankalitala is about 10 km from Santiniketan. Buses ply on the Bolpur-Labhpur route. Bolpur is the nearest railway station. One can hire a taxi or take a rickshaw from Bolpur. According to mythology, when the dead boby of maa Parvati was cut by Lord Shiva, the waist fell at kankalitala.

Getting Around

Walk

Sights

Temples

Activities

Worship

Hotels & Accommodation

Stay at Santiniketan

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Kankalitala Travel Guide is based on Kankalitala by Anirban Sinha Babu, Claus Hansen, P.K.Niyogi, iGuide and others. Kankalitala Travel Guide is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See background image credits.