What to buy . Where to stay . . The beach town of Digha is famous all over for flat, hard beaches. The beauty of this place was discovered as early as the days of Warren Hastings. Digha was known as Beercool at that time.
Digha beach is girdled with casuarina plantations along the coast.
The sea is calm and shallow for about a mile from the beach making it quite safe for swimming. Shankarpur Shankarpur, a virgin beach as yet, is a recent discovery. It is a twin beach of Digha, around 10 km. from it. It offers nearly all the pleasures of a private beach. This beach too is cupped with casuarina plantations.