The campus sits at the fringe of civilization. Beyond the boundary flows the Lower Ganga canal, a rich birding area. Beyond it are many picturesque villages: Gambhirpur with its old temple and jheel, Baghpur with its three herds of free-roaming geese, RaiGopalpur with a lovely bridge over a branch canal, Samratpur where I saw a field covered with three species of storks and black-headed ibises, all within 10-15km.
All the birds on this page (except the storks at bottom) were observed at a pond just outside campus during a two hour period before dusk, January 23, 2010. This pond is just 1.5km from IITK. Promit, whom you see in this picture, had learned bicycle barely a month back when he joined me on today's bicycling trip. To get there: