📍 Zoo📍 Family📍 Safari

Chhatbir Zoo

Mohali, Punjab, India

4.3 (0)

Overview

North India's largest zoo — a lion safari pioneer with 100+ species in riverine forest between Chandigarh and Patiala.

Why visit: Punjab's big family wildlife day, royal Bengal tigers included.

Things to do

›Lion safari
›Walk-in aviary
›Reptile house

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Mar

Entry fee

~₹100

Hours

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (closed Mon)

Est. budget

₹200–500

Duration

Half day

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Within

6.8 km

📍 Family

3.9

Fun City & Tricity Amusement (Sector-fringe)

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The tricity's amusement-and-water-park belt on the city fringe — rides, slides and pools that draw Chandigarh families on hot weekends.

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💎 Hidden Gem📍 Family

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Valley of Animals, Sector 49

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A themed valley-garden of life-size animal sculptures amid lawns and water channels — a whimsical newer park for families in the southern sectors.

Oct–Mar1 hrExplore

11 km

📍 Nature

4.3

Japanese Garden, Sector 31

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

A landscaped Zen garden of pagodas, arched bridges, a meditation cave, koi streams and bonsai — the city's most tranquil themed park.

Oct–Mar1–2 hrsExplore

11.3 km

📍 Shopping

4.4

Elante Mall

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

North India's largest mall — 200+ brands, a courtyard of restaurants, multiplex, gaming zone and the tricity's rainy-day, hot-day, any-day magnet.

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11.9 km

💎 Hidden Gem🛕 Religious

4.1

Jama Masjid, Sector 20

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

The city's principal mosque — a modern white marble prayer hall and minarets that fill for Friday prayers and the Eid festivities in the sectors.

Year-round; Eid1 hrExplore

12.4 km

📍 Nature

4.1

National Cactus Garden, Panchkula

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Asia's largest outdoor cactus and succulent collection — 3,500 species across glasshouses and rockeries, at bloom-riot best each spring.

Feb–Apr (bloom); Oct–Mar1–2 hrsExplore

12.4 km

📍 Nature

4.3

Terraced Garden, Sector 33

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

A stepped garden of seasonal flower terraces, a musical fountain and the popular Chrysanthemum Show each winter — an evening-walk favourite.

Oct–Mar; Chrysanthemum Show (Dec)1–2 hrsExplore

12.6 km

🍲 Local Experience

4.3

Sector 35 & Sector 26 Food Streets

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

The city's dining belts — Sector 35's cafés and bars, Sector 26's Madras and dhaba classics and the Sukhna-side chaat stalls — Chandigarh eating out.

Year-round; eveningsEveningExplore

12.6 km

🛕 Religious

4.2

Shri Kali Bari Temple, Sector 47

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

The Bengali-community goddess temple famed for its grand Durga Puja — pandal art, dhaak drums and prasad that draw the whole city each autumn.

Year-round; Durga Puja (Oct)1 hrExplore

12.7 km

🛕 Religious

4.5

ISKCON Temple, Sector 36

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A serene white Hare Krishna temple of Radha-Madhav — marble halls, evening kirtan and aarti, a Govinda's dining hall and gardens in the southern sectors.

Year-round; Janmashtami1–2 hrsExplore

13 km

📍 Museum

4.0

International Dolls Museum, Sector 23

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Costume dolls and puppets from dozens of countries, plus a joy-ride toy train in the garden — a small, cheerful outing for families.

Year-round (closed Mon)1 hrExplore

13.2 km

🛕 Religious

4.5

Mansa Devi Shaktipeeth, Panchkula

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The tricity's guardian goddess on a Shivalik foothill — Manimajra-era murals, Navaratri seas of devotees and a garden corridor of old shrines.

Year-round; Navaratri melas2–3 hrsExplore