Jabalpur Tourist Attractions

Introduction
Jabalpur city offers number of tourist attractions in and around its boundary. City is located on bank of Narmada river which is a sacred river with number of river ghats having riverside temples, ashrams and religious spots. These ghats contributes to places to see during Jabalpur city tour. Similarly presence of historical buildings, temples, monuments, parks, museum etc offers large variety of tourist spots in Jabalpur. City offers numerous sightseeing places according to visitor's taste and preference. Here we have created a list of some prominent tourist attractions that one can see during local city tour. If we go through different websites or books, we will find list of plenty of places in which some of them are not worth to visit. As tourists comes with limited time in hand and with fixed budget so it is important to know the list of deserving places to visit and exclude unimportant places. Here in given below list, we have tried to enlist good places to visit, during Jabalpur local sightseeing and assure you that you will like them. They are easy to access and better maintained.

Jabalpur Tourist Attractions

BHEDAGHAT:   It is located 25kms west of Jabalpur city in a small village called Bhedaghat which is located on the bank of Narmada river. It is a historic place where tourists can enjoy boat ride on river, passing through marble rocks. You can also do shopping of marble articles. Usually available from 15th Oct to 30th June. Boating is not possible in night so visit before sunset.

DHUANDHAR:   Close to Bhedaghat, Dhuandhar is a natural waterfall on Narmada river. Here river water cascades down from rocks and produces water crystals in air seems like a fog. It is photogenic site. Here you can also enjoy two-way rope-way ride that offer you view of river from top. Best time to visit is from October to March. It is open throughout the year. In monsoon season, it often gets flooded.

CHOUSAT YOGINI TEMPLE:   Close to Bhedaghat, Chousat Yogini temple is a historic temple. This circular cloister containing 95 images of different Brahmanical goddesses and few images of gods, made during rule of Kalchuri rule in Central India. These sculptured images are of 10th century A.D. Overall temple is dedicated to lord Shiva. Unique feature is to see Lord Shiva with Parvati, together which is very rare to witness anywhere. It is open all days in week, from sunrise to sunset, with no entrance fee.

MADAN MAHAL FORT:   It was indeed used as military watch point, as it is located at hill top, offering surrounding view of Jabalpur city. Actual Garha fort was located in lower plains whose location and marks are unfortunately unavailable. That fort was completely destroyed during British India rule and its building block stones were used railways in their building construction. Now their is no mark left of actual fort. At present, Madan Mahal has some historical building & ruins. It is indeed a military garrison, used by soldiers so calling is Madan Mahal Fort or Rani Durgavati Fort is not justified. Before visiting this place, please read the history of Gondwana Kingdom so understand the importance of place. Visit in day-time, throughout the year. No entrance fee required.

BALANCE STONE :   It is a magical site where we can find a heavy rock is naturally placed over another rock, in inclined position as if it can fall at anytime but actually fixed due to gravitational force. This site is just close to the Madan Mahal fort site. Here no entrance fee is required. We can travel it from sunrise to sunset in all day of week.

ISKCON TEMPLE:   It is under construction so mostly not visited by tourists. But if we can visit the site a devotee. Once temple construction will complete, it will be one of the most popular site to visit.

GAURIGHAT :   It is a Narmada river bank in Jabalpur city. Easily accessible by tourist cabs. Here evening Narmada Arti is the main attraction.

KACHNAR CITY TEMPLE :   It is another popular place to visit, during Jabalpur sightseeing. Here we can find impressive statue of Lord Shiva, having height of 76 ft., in open to sky. Apart from this, you can visit the base of statue. It is developed as a cave like passage in which we can find replica of all 12 Jyotirlingas of India. This gate is open in particular time only. Statue can be visited at anytime of the day. Their is no entrance fee for this site. Just go in any day of week, from sunrise to 20:00hrs. We can do photography here.

LAMHETAGHAT TEMPLES :   While going from Jabalpur to Bhedaghat, we can visit to Lamheta village. In first view, it is none other than a common village but when we study about this village and visit its surrounding area, we will realize that its location is historic. Here Dinsaur egg shells were found on the bank of Narmada river. Apart from this here we can visit to Paramhansa Ashram. In addition of this, we can also visit to ancient temples like Radha Krishna temple, Hanuman temple etc.

BARGI DAM :   Usually we don't include Bargi dam in day sightseeing due to long distance problem. It is approx. 40kms from Jabalpur city so take considerable time to reach and return back. This dam is made on Narmada river and offers boatride option. In addition to this, wildlife lovers can find it good for birding as surrounding region is green and undisturbed.

ROYAL HOTEL :   This site is actually closed for visitors but we can see this magnificent building, from outside. This building was actually built by King Gokuldas in the end of 19th century, for his grand daughter. In those days, it was outskirt of main city area. Building was inspired from European architecture thus later it was sold to Royale Hotel Group of British India and thus used by Britishers as a hotel. It is said that Indians are not allowed inside this campus.

RANI DURGAWATI MUSEUM :   It is located in city center. Open for visitors from 10:00 AM to 17:30hrs and closed on Every Monday. Here we can find ancient sculptured statues, coins, manuscripts, letters, tribal culture related information etc. Museum is divided in to categories.

Usually Jabalpur sightseeing is of 01 full day in which you can select your desired places to visit and accordingly undertake the sightseeing tour. In a single day, we can't cover all the above mentioned points so first shortlist your priority places to cover and accordingly take quotation from us. Apart from above mentioned points, you may find many other names also like Jilahri ghat, Tilahri ghat, Dumna nature reserve etc. but as if now, they don't have anything special to satisfy the tourists as a worth to visit them. Certain areas like Kamania gate is in narrow and congested area where traffic jam is normal, due to narrow lanes and encroachments thus they can't be covered by car in daytime and also nothing so special in these places. Thus our suggestion is to first prepare the list of places to real attractions and proceed for visit.