🛕 Religious💧 Waterfall📍 Nature

Baba Dhansar & Karua Jheel

Reasi, Jammu and Kashmir, India

4.3 (0)

Overview

A spring bursting from a cliff into terraced pools beside a naturally formed Shivalinga cave — the serpent-son shrine on the Salal road, greenest after rains.

Why visit: Waterfall, cave and legend in one leafy Reasi amphitheatre.

Things to do

›Spring cascades
›Shivalinga cave
›Karua pond
›Salal dam viewpoint

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Apr; Shivaratri mela

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

₹200–500

Duration

2–3 hrs

Nearby attractions

Within

4.4 km

💎 Hidden Gem🏛️ Historical

4.1

Bhimgarh Fort (Reasi Fort)

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General Zorawar Singh's stone stronghold on a Reasi hillock — treasury and armoury of the Dogra campaigns, restored with Chenab-valley views.

Oct–Mar1–2 hrsExplore

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🌄 Viewpoint

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Chenab Rail Bridge Viewpoint (Kauri)

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The world's highest railway arch — 359 m above the Chenab, taller than the Eiffel Tower — soaring between Bakkal and Kauri on the Kashmir rail link.

Oct–AprHalf dayExplore

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4.7

Shivkhori Cave Shrine

Reasi, Jammu and Kashmir

A kilometre-deep sacred cave narrowing to a 4-ft self-formed Shivalinga dripped by a milky spring — Jammu's second great pilgrimage after Vaishno Devi.

Oct–Apr; Shivaratri melaFull dayExplore

16.5 km

📍 Pilgrimage

4.7

One of Hinduism's most powerful shrines — the cave abode of Mata Vaishno Devi in the Trikuta hills, reached by a 13-km uphill trail from Katra walked by nearly a crore pilgrims a year chanting 'Jai Mata Di'. The goddess manifests as three natural rock pindis.

Mar–Oct1–2 daysExplore

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4.2

Akhnoor Fort & Jia Pota Ghat

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A Chenab-cliff fort over Harappan-era diggings, beside the ghat where Gulab Singh was anointed Dogra king in 1822 under a jia pota tree.

Oct–Mar2–3 hrsExplore