Places to visit nearby Statue of Unity
It’s always advisable and smart way to plan your holidays well in advance, by exploring about the place you are likely to visit and get an idea of nearby tourist spot you can visit along with that prime spot, by knowing about these places you can schedule and accordingly plan days you can spend at spot. This would make your trip more comfortable, memorable and most importantly gives value to your time and money.
This exercise can be done, by browsing for the nearby places of the location you are planning to visit and make your trip more interesting and hazel free before you start your journey.
Since ‘Statue of Unity’ is most preferred tourist destination these days, but besides Statue Of Unity, you can well planned and extend your trip by visiting nearby places to Statue of Unity.
Located at Kevadia — Narmada River Statue of Unity is surrounded by many Religious, Historical and Campsite exciting go to destination.
These nearby places around Statue of Unity, are for all types of travellers, be it family, kids and couples. Kevadia-Narmada is, however, mostly preferred by family.
The best time to visit and explored these destination are in Month of March, April, May, October, November. There are many local attractions and tourist spot, which can be explored nearby Statue of Unity, by travellers.
Local attractions nearby Statue of Unity can be visited at any time of the day, be it early morning, afternoon, evening or night, as suitable for travellers.
Sightseeing in Kevadia-Narmada will take half a day or one day, but to see all best travellers spot, you need to stay for 2 days to 3 days.
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To get and make your trip more pleasure and excited, let’s explore nearby places from Statue of Unity!
2. Valley of Flowers
‘Valley of Flowers’ is one of the attractions of ‘Statue of Unity’ setup at Kevadia Colony in Gujarat. The SoU is surrounded by 17 km long patch of colourful flowers along the banks of River Narmada to make the spot resembling a rainbow of flowers setup on earth.
The Valley of Flowers has over 100 variety of flowers like Garmado (yellow and red), Gulmohar (red), Champo (white), Khakhro (red), Pongaro (red), shrubs like Galtora (red and yellow), Tecoma (yellow), Boganveliya (white, red, yellow, and pink) Nerium, and climbers like Qualisis, Wadeliya, Allamandacathartica, and bamboos and colourful grasses, all seasons flowers like Marigold, Calendula, Sunflower, Vinca and others.
Religious Places :
3. Garudeshwar Dutt Temple
This ancient temple of Lord Shiva is situated on the Northern bank of holy River Narmada and attracts thousands of pilgrims from all over the world. This temple of Garudeshwar Mahadev is around 2000 years old and it is said that the Lord Shiva took the form of an eagle and saved all the common people from the attack of the evil elements. Garudeshwar is a pilgrim site with a holy place for bath called Ghat, on the bank of the Narmada. His Holiness Shree Vasudevananda Sarasvati chose to leave his Mundane body at this sacred site.
Prime attractions are the temple of Lord Dattatreya and a holy memorial ashram of His Holiness Vasudevananda Sarasvati who is the author of ‘Dattpuraan’. The statue of Lord Dattatreya is really very impressive and hypnotizing due to its piercing eyes. The statue is made of black granite stone and carved with beautiful wooden designs.
4. Nani Moti Panoti
Shri Shani Dev, the dreaded Hindu deity temple well known as Nani-Moti Panoti across India and next best to Shri Shani Shingnapur Temple, is located at Jior-Pati Village close to Rajpipla.
5. Uttarvahini Narmada
As said by holy saints the parikrama of ‘Uttarvahi Narmada’during ‘Chaitra’ month is of divine and religious mahatmay that equals the complete parikrama of the River Narmada. As it is rightly said “Ganga Snan, Yamuna Pan, Tapi Smaaran and Reva Darshan” is the way to attain ‘Moksha’. Mangrol situated between Rampura and Gopaleshwar is the Nabhisthan of Uttarvahi Narmada Maiya which is a preferred location for Narmada Snan to attain moksha.
6. Shulpaneshwar Temple
There are many ancient places and temples situated all along the bank of River Narmada in Nandod, Narmada. All such places are extremely holy and ancient. One of them Shulpaneshwar Temple located 22 km away from Rajpipla is the aesthetic centre for people across the border of Maharashtra and Gujarat and hardly any tourist would miss this temple during the Sardar Sarovar Dam visit. The ancient Shulpaneshwar temple on submergence in Sardar Sarovar has been relocated to Gora village. The 5 day tribal fair on ‘Chaitri Amaas’ celebrated to memorize similar celebration by all Hindu God during the appearance of Shivlinga at this place as described in ‘Skand Puran’. The beautiful ‘Ghaat’ for Narmada Snan and the Maha Aarti of Narmada Maiya on every Poonam (Full moon) is a privilege for Shiv devotees. Panchvati Garden with beautiful landscape is very interesting attraction for tourists.
7. Harsiddhi Temple
The world famous 400 year old temple of Maa Harsiddhi, one amongst the Shaktipeeths of Hindu Mythology upholds glorious history associated with the Royal Family of Rajpipla. Harsidhhi Mataji is believed to have enshrined Rajpipla compelled by deep faith expressed by then maharaja Shri Verisalji Maharaj. The temple is managed now by President, Hindu Devsthan Committee and Mamlatdar, Nandod. More than 200,000 tourists and devotees visit this temple every year. The Hindu Devsthan Committee realises social responsibility and therefore sparked a mission called ‘Maa Sarawati Vandana’ in Maa Harsiddhi Temple to train tribal students for employability and career opportunity in state of the art ‘Training Centre’. The adjoining Gayatri Temple and the Harsiddhi Temple recognised Tourism Centre is an invaluable resources to arrange and manage trips in this district.
Historical Places
8. Rajwant Places
His Highness Maharaja Vijaysinhji built this palace which has been converted into a Heritage Hotel by his successor Raghuvirsinh Gohil with an intention to promote heritage tourism. The Heritage and Tribal Museum of this hotel reflects glimpses of tribal culture and enriches one with the princely heritage of Rajpipla.
9. Wadia Palace
The then His Highness Maharaja Vijaysinh was the first Indian to win the world renowned Derby Race, who utilized the prize money of Rs. 4 million to build this palace with an intention of providing employment opportunity to the people of his estate.
The palace is known as Wadia Palace as is situated in the Wadia Village limits. Designed in a shape of English letter “8”, this palace contains more than 1000 doors and windows.
Dam Site
10. Sardar Sarovar Dam
The Sardar Sarovar Dam is world’s 2nd largest dam in terms of volume of concrete used, having longest canal network in the world, with largest water carrying capacity of 40000 cusec, much more than volume of water flowing in most rivers in Gujarat.
The dam was built with latest engineering technology using the world’s 2nd largest cable crane in terms of the span fascinating tourist from all over the world.
11. Shoolpaneshwar Wildlife Sanctuary
The forest is a moist deciduous forest with semi-evergreen elements. It is one of the densest forests in Gujarat. The hilly tract of the sanctuary bordering the Narmada supports some of the best forests of Gujarat harboring floral and faunal elements bearing similarities to Himalayan and Western Ghats ones. The physical aspect is dominated by Rajpipla hills. Dhanmal is the highest peak in this region.The general slope is towards west. The sanctuary has a vast undulating terrain, lush ever pervading greenery, tall canopy, deep valleys, somber rocks, gentle streams, and majestic waterfalls all in the Vindhyan-Satpuran ranges. Moist teak forest, moist mixed deciduous forest, dry deciduous scrub, dry bamboo brakes and dry tropical riverine forest are the varied habitats found here. It is also a major watershed feeding two major reservoirs thus conserving the soil and water.
12. Zarvani Waterfall
Zarvani Waterfall is situated in Narmada District & it is situated inside Shoolpaneshwar Wildlife Sanctuary. It has beautiful greenery around and surroundings. One can make a trip to this place as a picnic and have fun with friends and family.
Zarwani campsite is situated inside the Shoolpaneshwar Wildlife Sanctuary which is home to a gamut of flora & fauna. The Best time for visiting Zarwani Waterfall is in Monsoon and Winter seasons
Source:
https://www.narmadaecotourism.org/
Picture courtesy: google images
