Indian Botanic Garden
Founded in 1787 by Robert Kyd, an East India Company officer, to grow plants of commercial value. Its Great Banyan, about 250 years old, lost its main trunk to decay in 1925 but still spreads as a small forest of aerial roots.
Closed Mondays. Opens at 8am and the ticket counter shuts around 4–4:30pm, so go in the morning. It is across the river, over Vidyasagar Setu; allow time for traffic.
- Time to allow
- 2 hrs