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Moyna Garh

Moyna Garh is a very unusual tourist spot that we discovered near Tamluk in East Midnapur. It was a fort with two moats surrounding it and it looks like an island inside an island. The fort has now been swallowed up by time but there are two ancient and very beautiful temples that are still there.

These are some of the pictures that we took there the few boats that are available to ferry people had stopped plying by the time we reached around noon. However we managed to motivate on boatman to allow us the use of this rickety boat to reach the inner island This is a very ancient Radha Krishna temple. It comes alive during the Ras Festival in October-November This is the deity that is taken out in a beautiful, illuminated boat on the occasion of the Ras Festival This is the Noukeshwar Shiva temple. The Noukeshwar ( Lord of the Boats ) shivalinga is deep underground and the place gets flooded during the monsoon floods In celebration of Lord Noukeshwar This is a Dargah that the Raja's of Moyna Garh have allowed to be built in their fort

Moyna Garh is not too difficult to reach. Take the Bombay Road ( NH6) to Kolaghat and then turn south on the Haldia Highway and drive to Nouturi ( about 20 km). Turn right towards Srirampur and drive 12 km. Once you reach the town of Moyna ask for the Raj Bari

Posted by Prithwis Mukerjee at 9:00 pm

Labels: Bengal, tourism


manjusree 11:42 pm

এইরকম করে খুঁজে-খুঁজে তুমি ঘুরে বেড়াও কন্যে? নামই জানিনা অথচ ছবির পুঁজি দেখে বুঝছি ময়নাগড় পৌঁছতে পারলে পাব ঢের। ভাল, ভাল, বেশ ভাল।

ইন্দিরা মুখার্জি 11:58 am

তা বটে মঞ্জুশ্রী । সরকারী সহযোগিতা পেলে ময়নাগড় হয়ে উঠতে পারে দারুন ট্যুরিষ্ট স্পট । ইকো ট্যুরিসমের পক্ষে আইডিয়াল । ঘুরে এসো পারলে ।

Anonymous 11:38 pm

Very beautiful place indeed......excellent pics.....nicely depicted....


Anonymous 5:42 pm

I do often visit this beautiful island fort. And do have the opportunity to meet the prince there. Also, I was able to get a copy of book written by him on History of Moynagarh, named "Killa Moynachaura"( written in bengali).
P.Chatterjee, Jamshedpur
