Bihari Cuisine Trail (Litti Chokha to Khaja)
Patna, Bihar, India
Nearby attractions
Patna Museum (Jadu Ghar)
Patna, Bihar
The grand 1917 Indo-Saracenic 'magic house' — Buddhist relic caskets, a fossil tree, Chinese-Tibetan art and Bihar's older treasures before the new museum.
Gandhi Maidan & Ghat, Patna
Patna, Bihar
The historic 25-acre ground of freedom-struggle rallies and the towering Gandhi statue, beside the Ganga ghats where the great Chhath crowds gather.
Golghar, Patna
Patna, Bihar
The 1786 beehive granary built after a famine — a 29-m stupa-shaped dome with twin spiral stairways and a rooftop panorama over the Ganga.
Buddha Smriti Park, Patna
Patna, Bihar
A tranquil city-centre memorial park with a stupa enshrining Buddha relics, meditation halls, a museum and landscaped lawns by Patna Junction.
Mahavir Mandir & Patna Sahib Ghats
Patna, Bihar
One of India's busiest Hanuman temples by the station, famed for its 'naivedyam' laddoo, and the Ganga ghats of old Patna City nearby.
Chhath Puja on the Ganga Ghats
Patna, Bihar
Bihar's grandest festival — hundreds of thousands on the Ganga ghats at dawn and dusk, offering arghya to the setting and rising sun in a river of lamps.
Sabhyata Dwar & Marine Drive, Patna
Patna, Bihar
The grand 'Gateway of Civilisation' arch and the developed Ganga riverfront (JP Ganga Path) — an evening promenade of lights, lawns and river breeze.
Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park (Patna Zoo)
Patna, Bihar
Patna's leafy zoo-and-botanical garden — tigers, rhinos, a reptile house, toy train and boating lake, the city's classic family day out.
Ganga River Cruise, Patna–Bhagalpur
Patna, Bihar
The revived Ganga cruise route — sailing past ghats, dolphin waters, Vikramshila and riverside villages on the great river that made Bihar.
Kumhrar (Pataliputra Ruins)
Patna, Bihar
The excavated remains of Ashoka's imperial Pataliputra — the 80-pillared Mauryan assembly hall's polished sandstone column and the Arogya Vihara monastery.
Agam Kuan & Sheetala Mata, Patna
Patna, Bihar
The 'unfathomable well' of Ashokan antiquity beside the Sheetala Devi temple — a brick-ringed shaft steeped in Maurya legend and living worship.
Bihar Museum, Patna
Patna, Bihar
A world-class 2015 museum of Bihar's history — the famed Didarganj Yakshi, Maurya and Pala sculpture, a children's gallery and striking modern architecture.