Raja Nahar Singh Palace, Ballabhgarh
Faridabad, Haryana, India
Nearby attractions
Badkhal Lake & Aravalli Golf Course
Faridabad, Haryana
The 1947 embankment lake refilling after decades dry — Aravalli-ringed sunset decks, peacock scrub and the pines of the golf valley beside it.
Dhauj & Mangar Bani Sacred Forest
Faridabad, Haryana
The NCR's last primary Aravalli forest — a village-protected sacred grove of dhau trees, leopard pugmarks, prehistoric cave art and crag-climbing camps at Dhauj.
Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary
Delhi, Delhi
The last wild Aravalli in Delhi — restored mine-pit lakes, a butterfly park, striped hyena and jackal country and the Neeli Jheel viewpoint.
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.
Sultanpur & Chhatarpur Aravalli Ridge Walks
Delhi, Delhi
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.
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.
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.
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.
Panchvati Palwal (Pandav Vanvas Sthal)
Palwal, Haryana
The town of 'Apelava' where the Pandavas are placed in exile years — a five-banyan temple campus and Gandhi's first arrest memorial at the station.
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.
Bhondsi Nature Park
Gurugram, Haryana
An Aravalli valley campus of plantation forest, walking loops and a Shiva temple pond — a prime minister's old ashram turned public green.
Chhatarpur Temple (Shri Adya Katyayani Shakti Peeth)
Delhi, Delhi
One of India's largest temple complexes — 60 acres of white-marble and south-Indian-style shikharas to the goddess, dazzling through Navaratri nights.