Best Picnic Places near Surat
“ફરે તે ચરે, બાંધ્યો ભૂખે મરે…. !!” – This primordial maxim preaches the so many dimensions of social learning and human activities. In the most recent context, we can relate this maxim to the upcoming commercial activity of tourism and travelling. Tourism always strives for the new destinations and picnic spots. Surat is one of the major cities of Gujarat and having a strategic geographical place in South Gujarat region. The picnic spots near Surat can be bifurcated into various categories like beaches, temples, historic places, gardens, etc.
If we talk about the beaches then we must say that Surat is the pretty town located at the seashore and fortunate enough to have so many wonderful beaches to hangout.
- Dumas beach: It is the nearest and most easily accessible beach. Dumas beach is the favourite location of the Suratis for hangout at beach chowpati, have various kinds of bhajiyaas and have quality time. Though Dumas is also considered one of the most haunted places of world, the glory of it remains as it is.
- Dandi Beach: Another very popular and beautiful beach is Dandi beach near Navsari town.
- Hazira beach: Hazira beach and Suvali beach are also adding the feathers in the beauty of the Surat town. Though the Hazira beach has been now occupied by the heavy industries to expand their operations and develop the port.
- Suvali beach: This is very beautiful but it is a fatal landscape, the water logging during the tide is deceptive and takes its toll.
- Tithal beach: One more beach is Tithal near the Valsad town which is also a very good hangout place with temples and other amusements activities on the beach. The glory doesn’t end here, Ubhrat beach is also in the competition of the hangout places.
- Ubharat beach: This is located near Maroli town is wonderful place for sunbath, bathing in sea, seashore sports, etc and many other things; there are so many farmhouses and plots which have increased the real estate market of the region. And last but the not the least, we cannot forget the Daman beach –a heaven for Surati and other Gujarati people.
- Daman beach is adjacent to the Tithal beach and falls under the union territory and that is why the free liquor market there has given Daman a great height in tourism and huge number of visitors across Gujarat.
Now, if we explore about the temples or pilgrimage then we do have a rich heritage. Few of them are –
- We have Dada bhagwan temple at Kamrej village near Surat; we also have holy place like Gaay Paglaa at Kamrej. Both these places have become the centre of the faith and aesthetic ambience for local and other people.
- Moreover other miraculous places like taineshwar mahadev near Surat, Sidhhnath mahadev at olpad, are holy places and having an interesting long history behind their embodiment.
- saroli sai baba at olpad, is slowly becoming the centre of sai devotees where every Thursday people come to pay tribute to Sai baba.
- swaminarayan temples in and nearby Surat – especially poicha near Rajpipla, Chintamani jain temple, manibhadra derasar, khwaja daana dargaah in Surat, etc are places where we can pay our tribute and worship the almighty.
Talking about gardens, still there are not much impressive or fully equipped gardens in comparison to metros, Surat has some regional gardens which serve the purpose for hanging out.
- Chowpati: The most popular garden is Chowpati – in the centre of Surat most popular in children, lovebirds and food lovers. Having amenities for boating, all equipments for children to have fun and adjacent food street for all cuisines;
- a river side garden with the water sports at Cauzway in Surat is also slowly making its place in people’s mind. Here SMC has managed some of the water sports for adventure lovers.
- Botanical garden in Surat; Clock garden in Bhestan – having the biggest ground clock in the Asia; etc are prime spots.
Apart from these there some destinations for amusement and fun are water parks and amusements parks –
- chhab chhbaa chhab near Surat,
- Aquacity near Kamrej;
- Mirasol water park at Daman;
- Modi resort at Ubhrat;
- Jagdishchandra bose aquarium at Surat;
- Sarthana Nature park at Surat;
- Science centre in Surat town;
- vaibhav water park near vapi town – etc are exhilarating the people.
There are certain campsites and national parks also for the adventure lovers. Some of them are –
- Vansada National park (sanctuary) – an attraction for animals and bird lovers.
- Purna wildlife sanctuary – near vyara and dang district is a beautiful landscape to explore and tracking.
- Ukai dam site – a site having the amazing blend of the beautiful landscape created by river and wonderful architecture by engineers.
- Narmada dam site – one of the biggest dams in Gujarat, etc are the places to hang out.
Surat Castle, old fort also the heritage site, Dutch cemetery, etc are the ancient places to hang around. So if you are living in Surat or in a nearby town, you can explore for the best place for the short escape or one day picnic as per your mood.
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