Nagpur is synonymous with ORANGES.....BETTER KNOWN AS ORANGE CITY. It's the 2nd capital and the 3rd largest city of Maharashtra.
It's quite a bustling city and well spread across.
MY VISIT :
Though , often as I kept travelling from Mumbai to my home state ,kolkata, I came across this city of Nagpur , but this time , it was my 2nd visit to the city. My husband stays a month every year during his training Camp at Nagpur Cant . But I hardly could make it everytime. But this time as we intended to go for a road trip across Madhya Pradesh , I planned to drop in as guest at his army unit , to join those Men in uniform and share a day experience with them. I landed at Dr.B.R Ambedkar International airport around 8pm, and my husband was there to receive me....and then off for a long drive upto his Unit at Nagpur Cant. Area.......It's almost more than 17 yrs that I last visited this place...Lots of changes, well furnished guest house and we'll spread food layout at its dinning hall.....what a lovely evening to share with all those Men in Uniform.
Had to wake up early next morning, as my husband planned to give me a short trip across the Nagpur City , on our way to kahna national park in M.P. ......Even my husband too was in relaxed mood after a month long rigorous training and that now he got his Lt.Col title too....Morning , after breakfast , I just had a walk around the premise of the unit , until our vehicle arrived....it's time to say goodbye to each one them for their awesome hospitality. ...
We planned to visit RAMTEK and KHINDSI LAKE , before we push off for Kahna national park. ....and maybe on our way back from our tour of South East M.P , I will check out the Dragon Temple , and Deekshabhoomi. ...that's our plan .
Ramtek is located on a hill and was once known as Ramagiri......The drive upto the top of the hill was really an awesome experience....Once on top of the hill , it houses a fort , Jain temples , Ram temple and Poet Kalidas smarak. ...After parking our car , we had to walk up the stone steps to the top of the fort....Since pujas are performed in the Ram temple, inside the fort ...we had to remove our shoes and walk across....really a nice place to visit...very well maintained and the view from the top was really awesome.....Besides religious flavours, it was giving a old world charm.After exploring every corner of the fort ,we walked down to the Kalidas Smarak. ...it's a monument in his name but well built. It's worth visiting ....the paintings from kalidas's stories was nice going thru....
It's quite a bustling city and well spread across.
MY VISIT :
Though , often as I kept travelling from Mumbai to my home state ,kolkata, I came across this city of Nagpur , but this time , it was my 2nd visit to the city. My husband stays a month every year during his training Camp at Nagpur Cant . But I hardly could make it everytime. But this time as we intended to go for a road trip across Madhya Pradesh , I planned to drop in as guest at his army unit , to join those Men in uniform and share a day experience with them. I landed at Dr.B.R Ambedkar International airport around 8pm, and my husband was there to receive me....and then off for a long drive upto his Unit at Nagpur Cant. Area.......It's almost more than 17 yrs that I last visited this place...Lots of changes, well furnished guest house and we'll spread food layout at its dinning hall.....what a lovely evening to share with all those Men in Uniform.
Had to wake up early next morning, as my husband planned to give me a short trip across the Nagpur City , on our way to kahna national park in M.P. ......Even my husband too was in relaxed mood after a month long rigorous training and that now he got his Lt.Col title too....Morning , after breakfast , I just had a walk around the premise of the unit , until our vehicle arrived....it's time to say goodbye to each one them for their awesome hospitality. ...
We planned to visit RAMTEK and KHINDSI LAKE , before we push off for Kahna national park. ....and maybe on our way back from our tour of South East M.P , I will check out the Dragon Temple , and Deekshabhoomi. ...that's our plan .
Ramtek is located on a hill and was once known as Ramagiri......The drive upto the top of the hill was really an awesome experience....Once on top of the hill , it houses a fort , Jain temples , Ram temple and Poet Kalidas smarak. ...After parking our car , we had to walk up the stone steps to the top of the fort....Since pujas are performed in the Ram temple, inside the fort ...we had to remove our shoes and walk across....really a nice place to visit...very well maintained and the view from the top was really awesome.....Besides religious flavours, it was giving a old world charm.After exploring every corner of the fort ,we walked down to the Kalidas Smarak. ...it's a monument in his name but well built. It's worth visiting ....the paintings from kalidas's stories was nice going thru....
After RAMTEK we headed for Khinsi lake....KHINDSI lake is a large water reserviour situated within the Satpura Hill Range.its very popular as a water sport destination. ....The entry ticket to the complex was 25 rs each ...bit more , I personally felt....As we strolled around the park area , I saw school children coming for picnic , people going for boat ride in the lake , but we had hardly much time to spend there as it was long way off to Kahna national park.
It was on our way back from Madhya trip that we stopped our at SAUSAR,the orange land ....as we drove from Panchmarhi to Nagpur. Couldn't stop our curiosity to make a stopover at some orange orchard by the highway....it was total fun to fluck oranges ( offcourse with owners permission ) and have it.....It's just yummy taste....the cotton fields by its side was also an attraction......Spend quite sometime in the Orange Orchards at Sausar..before we headed for the Duration Temple close to Kamptee. After my prayers and darshan at the temple we drove off to the DRAGON PALACE TEMPLE. IT'S A BUDDHIST TEMPLE, VERY BEAUTIFULLY MADE . As we it's design and it's accostics of Buddha mantra....oh , I loved the resonating prayers in the evening sky......Such Soulful sound echoing across the air and enriching it's environment.
We were now literally getting late to reach the airport for our flight to mumbai back home ....so had to drop the idea to visit the Deekshabhoomi, as the madening traffic of Nagpur is well known and talked about.....Had to get myself a box of SANDRA BARFI or orange sweets,before I left the city ......Just had a great time .
A very nice post on Nagpur. Thanks for sharing about your experience. Along with the mentioned places , there are many more places to visit in Nagpur which attracts visitors.
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