Visit to Ajodha Pahar,Purulia,West Bengal

Ajodhya Pahar is a famous hill in district Purulia,West Bengal.It is a part of the Dalma Hills and extended part of Eastern Ghats range.Highest peak of Ajodhya Hill is Gorgaburu.Bagmundi is the populated town near Ajodhya Pahar.
It is a popular hill for young mountaineers to learn the basic course in rock climbing. There are two routes available to reach Ajodhya Hills. One is via Jhalda and other one is via Sirkabad.There is Forest Rest House here. Gorgaburu(855m)and Mayuri etc are some of the peaks of Ajodhya hills range.
The area forms  lowest step of the Chata Nagpur Plateau.The general scenario is undulating land with  scattered hills.The area around Baghmundi or Ajodha Hill is an extended plateau.
According to Hindu mythology,Rama and Sita had come to Ajodha Hills and stayed during their exile.Sita was thirsty and Rama pierced an arrow through the Earth's soil crust and through that water gushed out.Sita quenched her thirst.The place is known as Sita-Kunda.During the full moonday hin Baisakh every year tribals of nearby area come and join in the game of hunting wild animals.
Purulia Pumped Storage Project with an installed capacity of 900MW(4*225MW) has been set up in Ajodha hill under Baghmundi Police Station with the loan assistance of Japan Bank for Internation Corporation. Near Ajodha Hills,there is Turga Dam and the Lake and preasant water formed by the river Bamni.The site of the Turga Dam is a perfect tourist spot where the visitors can spend their day.
There are two famous guest House as Niharika and Malabika under WBFPC closed to Ajodha Pahar.There are so many beatiful visiting places here like Jaychandi Pahar,Dalma Pahar,Bamni Falls,Pathar Khadan,Turga Falls,Chorida Village,Muruguma Dam,Pakhi Pahar(Murra Buru Hill),Gorshabru and Mayur etc.Gorshabru is highest peak(2850feets) of Ayodhya Hills.There are various deep forests, numberous Waterfalls,Tarpania Lake,Khairaberia Lake,Upper Ayodhya Dam,Lower Ayodhya Dam,Mayui Hill in Ayodhya Hill.Leopards,deers,wild boars,numberous birds,peacocks,elephants,wolves and cheetahs are found in Ayodhya Hills.Nearest village is Baghmundi and nearest Railway Station is Barabhum.Lalmati Express,Howrah-Ranchi Express and Howrah-Chackradharpur Passanger are available daily in Barabhum station.

View of two hills of Ajodhaya Pahar   

View of a Lake and Ajodhya Hills   

                                            A view of Lake in Djodha Pahar

                                         View of waterfall in Ajodhaya Pahar

                                     

                                         A group of Deers in Ajodhya Jangle

Ajodhya Panchkot      

                                                A nice way to Ajodha Pahar

                                          A Guest House near Ajodha Pahar

                                              A Guest House in Ajodha Pahar

                                      Views of guest house in Ajodha Pahar

                                      Other Guest House near Ajodha Pahar

                                          Guest House near Ajhoda Pahar

                              Views of so many Guests Houses in Ajodha Pahar

                                                High way near Ajodha Pahar



                            End of Visit to Ajodhya Pahar,Purulia,West Bengal

Visit to Tarapith Temple,Rampurhat,Birbhum,West Bengal

Tarapith is a small temple town near Rampurhat Railway Station in Birbhum district,West Bengal.It is known as trantric temple and a cremation ground is there nearby temple where sashanas(trantric rituals) are performed.This hindu trantic temple is dedicated to the Goddess,Tara Maa.Tarapith is also famous for Sadhak Bamakhepa,who was a mad saint and worshipped in the temple and resided in the nearby cremation grounds known as Maha Shamshan.The present temple was bult by Jagannath Roy of Malharpur about 200 years back,when a powerful flood in Dwaka river demolished the original temple bult by Joy Dutta.There is an old stone statue of Goddess as Sila Murti of Maa Tara.Lord Shiva is present along with Maa Tara as Bhairavh to the eastside of Goddess temple.There are other temples of the suprime lord Vishnu,Hanuman and Bama khyapa respectively.Tarapith temple is located a distance of appox. 7km from Rampurhat Railway Station
Atla is the birth place of great mad saint Bama Khyapa(1837-1911) and located near Tarapith at a distance 3km from Tarapit Bus stand.Maha shamshan is a present burning ground.At old ages,according to Hindusm,dead body of sages were not burnt after death but burred in holy places or flow in holy river.Pancha Asan of Vashishtha Muni,Samadhi mandir of Bama Khyapa,Pad-Padma,foots prints of Goddess in a form of stone are situated together to the east of Maha Shamshan.Samadhi mandir (tomb stone) of several other sages are also found in Maha Shamshan.
Tarapith is located on the northen bank of Dwaka,river at a distance of appox.220km from Kolkata in north side of West Bengal.There are about 25 numbers of hotels and lodges in Tarapith like Hotel Larica,Hotel Sathi,Hotel Yashoda International,Hotel Comfort Inn and Hotel TARA etc.

                                                   View of Tarapith Temple

                                                   View of Tarapith temple

                                               Front view of Tarapith temple

                                            Front View of Tarapith temple

                                            Front view of Tarapith temple

                                              Front view of Tarapith temple

                                                 View of Tarapith temple

                               Statue of  Goddess, Tara Maa,Tarapith Temple

                                            Kankali Tala Mandir of Devi/Shakti

                     View of Nahateshwari Temple of Debi/Shakti in Kali form

                                   Goddess Parvati Devi/Shakti in Kali form

Tarapith Sanshanghat  

                                                    Tarapith Tantrik Sadhu

                                            View of Larica Hotel in Tarapit

                                                     Hotel Sathi in Tarapith
                 

                                                 Hotel Yashoda International

Hotel Comfort Inn

                                             Hotel TARA,Tarapith,Rampurhat




                   End of Visit to Tarapith, Rampurhat,Birbhum,West Bengal.

Visit to Varanasi and Kashi,Uttar Pradesh

Varanasi is a great historical and holy city of Lord Shiva in Hinduism in India.Main temple is Shri Kashi Vishwanath and it is one of the most famous Hindu temples dedicated to Lord Shiva in Varanasi,Uttar Pradesh,India.It is located on the western bank of the river Ganga and it has one Jyotirlings out  in this Shiva temple.Varanasi city is also famous for KashiVishvanath temple.The name Vishvanath is The Ruler of the Universe.
This temples were destroyed and reconstructed a number of times in history.Once,this temple was demolished by Aurangzeb,the six Mughal emperor who constructed the Gyanvapi Mosque on its site.
The current structure was bult up on an adjacent site by the Marata ruler,Ahilya Bai Holkar of Indore in 1780.The two domes of temple were covered by 1 tonne gold donated by the Sikh Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1835.The Bhosales of Nagpur donated silver to the temple in 1841.Later,however,third dome was covered by gold plating from Ministry of Culture & Religious Affairs,Govt. of Utter Pradesh.The temple has been managed by the govt. of Utter Pradeh from 1983.
As per Hindu mythology,Lord Shiva married Goddess Parvati on Mahashivratri and gauna was performed on Rangbhari Ekadashi.Residents of Kashi celebrate the occasion in a grand style.
The Manikarnika Ghat on the bank of Ganges near to the Kashi Vishwanath temple is considered as a Shakti Peetha,a revered place of worship for the Shaktism sect.Once,Lord Shiva came to Kashi Vishwanath Shrine through Manikarnika after the death of Sati Devi in past.
As per tradition,devotees carried the idols of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati in a palaki from the house of former mahant of Kashi Vishwanath Temple.Blowing conch,damru and other mucical instruments,the devotees went to the sanctum sanctorum of Kashi Vishwnath  Temple and offered gulal and rose petals to the deities.
The Kashi Vishwanath Temple receives around 3,000 visitors every day but in any occasion,it reachs more than one lac.The temple height is 15.50 meters having three domes each made up with pure gold.It is located at a distance of 4.70km from Baranisi  Rail Station,3.10km from Kashi Rail Station and 24.70km from Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport,Baranasi.
There are so many hotels and lodges (198 nos) near Kashi Vishwanath Temple like Diomond Hotel,(appox.-1.32km from Temple),Hotel Chandra,Holel The Swastik Inn,(0.22km from Temple,Holel Alka,(1.00km from Temple),Shivakashi Guest House,(1.00km from Temple)
There are so many nearby places of interest in Varanasi like Bharat Mata Temple,Durga Temple,
,Buddhist Temple,Tulsi Manasa Temple,Kalbhairava Temple,Chaukhandi Stupa,Dhamekh Stupa,Dharmrajika Stupa,Harish Chandra Ghat,Assi Ghat,Manikarnika Ghat,Bharat Kala Bhavan,Baranasi Hindu University,Ashoka Lion Capital,Jantar Mantar etc.

Past Gyanvapi Mosque,spetched as temple of Vishvevur in 1834 by James Prinsep

                                                          Gyanvapi Mosque

                                         View of Vishwanath temple from Ganga site

                                        View of one of 12 Jyotirlings of Shiva temple

                                        View of golden temple  of Kashi Vishwanath

                              View of Golden temple of Kashi  Vishwanath, Baranasi,1915

                                             View of Kashi Vishwanath TempleGhat

                                            View of Dasashwarmedh Ghat in Baranasi

                                                         Hotel Alka,Baranasi

                                                        Shivakashi Guest House

                                                               Hotel Sathi

                                      End of Varanasi and Kashi Visit,Uttar Pradesh

Visit to Digha,Purba Medinipur,West Bengal

Digha is a nice visiting place and seaside resort town in Purba Medinipur district  in West Bengal.It is situated at the northern end of the Bay of Bengal.It is a shallow sand beacth and most popular sea resort in West Bengal.Digha is located 183km from Kolkata & Howrah via Mecheda.The best time of visiting to Digha is March to July as weather stays all most pleasant in this time.But people and visitors are coming here in all seasons throughout the year.
Old Digha is situated at a distance of 2km from New Digha.Old Digha Main gate is also called as Alankarpur Digha.In new Digha,there is a place as named Sindhur Tara just near Amrabati Park,a Church Science Centre established by the National Council of Science Museums.Marine Aquarium and Research Centre was established in 1989 during the Seventh Five Year Plan.Lord Shiva Temple is situated at a distance of 8km from Digha at Chandaneswar,broder of Bengal and Odisha.Every year in month of Chaitra,a grand fairs are observed near Lord Shiva Temple and nearly half millon people and pilgrims from defferent States of India visit the Temple.There are so  many Bus and Train servives to come to Digha from Kolkata,Howrah and Salt Lake.Suficient hotels and Lodges are available here to stay some days on leave with family like Hotel Santiniketan,Sea Hawk,Dolphin Holel, Hotel Rajita,  Digha Hotel, Hotel Sea Coast and Hotel Rubina etc.

                                                         View of old Digha

                                                          Sun rise of Digha

                                                  Railway Station of Digha

                                                      View of Gate of Digha

                                     View of  sea bath place and sea side shop

                                               Bathing view in sea of Digha

                                         View of Digha sea and fishing boats

                                                   Nice view of sea of Digha

                                                        Sea view of Digha

                                                   Fishing view of  Digha

                                                           Hotel  Digha

 

A view of Hotel at Digha 

                                                 View of a Hotel at Digha

                                                   Hotel Rubina,New Digha





                          End of Visit to Digha,Purba Medinipur,West Bengal