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Badkhal Lake & Aravalli Golf Course

Faridabad, Haryana, India

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Overview

The 1947 embankment lake refilling after decades dry — Aravalli-ringed sunset decks, peacock scrub and the pines of the golf valley beside it.

Why visit: Faridabad's revived weekend classic, herons returning yearly.

Things to do

›Embankment sunset
›Peacock scrubland
›Golf-course drive
›Surajkund combo

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Mar

Entry fee

₹20–50

Est. budget

₹200–600

Duration

Half day

Nearby attractions

Within

3.5 km

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💎 Hidden Gem📍 Nature

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Dhauj & Mangar Bani Sacred Forest

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Oct–MarHalf–full dayExplore

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📍 Cultural

4.5

Surajkund & International Crafts Mela

Faridabad, Haryana

A 10th-century Tomar sun-pool of amphitheatre stone steps, and each February the country's greatest crafts fair — a lakh artisans, looms and folk stages.

Feb (mela); Oct–MarFull dayExplore

7.9 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Nature

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Sultanpur & Chhatarpur Aravalli Ridge Walks

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The southern Ridge's kikar-forest trails and Bhatti mines lakes — nilgai, peafowl and Delhi's best under-the-radar birding an Uber from the metro.

Oct–Mar; morningsHalf dayExplore

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💎 Hidden Gem🏛️ Historical

4.0

Anangpur Dam (Tomar Hydraulics)

Faridabad, Haryana

An 8th-century quartzite gravity dam of King Anangpal's Delhi — still holding a monsoon lake in an Aravalli ravine walk from Surajkund.

Aug–Mar2–3 hrsExplore

10 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Heritage

4.1

Raja Nahar Singh Palace, Ballabhgarh

Faridabad, Haryana

The 1857 martyr-king's haveli-fort — Jat-Mughal courtyards restored as a heritage venue for the raja hanged for joining the great uprising.

Oct–Mar1–2 hrsExplore

10.3 km

💎 Hidden Gem🏛️ Historical

4.2

Tomb of Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq

Delhi, Delhi

A red-and-white sloping-walled fortress-tomb on its own islet, linked to Tughlaqabad by a causeway over a now-dry lake — the toughest, purest Tughlaq statement.

Oct–Mar1 hrExplore

10.6 km

💎 Hidden Gem🏛️ Historical

4.3

Tughlaqabad Fort

Delhi, Delhi

The colossal 1321 stone citadel of Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq — cyclopean sloping ramparts, cursed by a saint to lie 'inhabited by shepherds', and largely so still.

Oct–Mar; early2–3 hrsExplore

12.7 km

📍 Nature

4.2

Garden of Five Senses, Saidul Ajaib

Delhi, Delhi

A 20-acre themed park of sculpture courts, bamboo groves, solar mazes and a bougainvillea café strip on a Mehrauli rock-scape.

Oct–Mar; evenings2–3 hrsExplore

13.3 km

📍 Shopping

4.3

Select Citywalk & Saket Malls

New Delhi, Delhi

South Delhi's premier retail-and-leisure cluster — Select Citywalk's brands and food court, the DLF Avenue, cinemas and the KNMA gallery beside.

Year-roundHalf dayExplore

13.3 km

💎 Hidden Gem🏛️ Historical

4.1

Khirki Masjid & Satpula

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A fortress-like covered mosque of 1354 with latticed 'windows', beside the Satpula seven-arched water-weir of Firoz Shah's Delhi — in artsy Khirki village.

Oct–Mar1–2 hrsExplore

13.3 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Museum

4.4

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA)

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India's leading private modern-and-contemporary collection — Husain, Gaitonde and Sher-Gil among rotating shows — free, in Saket's mall district.

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