Sultanpur & Chhatarpur Aravalli Ridge Walks
Delhi, Delhi, India
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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.
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.
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.
Zafar Mahal, Mehrauli
Delhi, Delhi
The last Mughal palace — Bahadur Shah Zafar's summer retreat and the empty marble enclosure ('Sardgah') where the exiled emperor wished, in vain, to be buried.
Jahaz Mahal & Hauz-i-Shamsi, Mehrauli
Delhi, Delhi
A Lodi-era 'ship palace' reflected in the 13th-century Shamsi tank, heart of the Phoolwalon ki Sair flower festival that unites the city's faiths.
Hijron ka Khanqah, Mehrauli
Delhi, Delhi
A serene Lodi-era walled cemetery of the hijra (transgender) community — 49 whitewashed graves and a mosque, quietly tended for five centuries.
Jamali Kamali Mosque & Tomb
Delhi, Delhi
A jewel-box 1536 mosque and the adjoining tomb of Sufi poet Jamali, its tiny chamber ablaze with painted-and-tiled ceilings — the loveliest interior in Mehrauli Park, and famously 'haunted'.
Mehrauli Archaeological Park
Delhi, Delhi
A 200-acre green sprawl of a thousand years — Balban's tomb, Jamali-Kamali's jewel mosque, Metcalfe's follies and Rajon ki Baoli among the Qutub's shadow.
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.
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.
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.
Yogmaya Temple, Mehrauli
Delhi, Delhi
One of Delhi's few surviving pre-Sultanate temples — Krishna's sister-goddess, tied by legend to the Mahabharata and the Phoolwalon ki Sair unity festival.