📍 Cultural📍 Heritage📍 Festival

Surajkund & International Crafts Mela

Faridabad, Haryana, India

4.5 (0)

Overview

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.

Why visit: India's crafts in one bowl of ancient masonry every spring.

History: Built by Tomar king Surajpal; the mela has run since 1987.

Things to do

›Sun-pool steps
›Mela state pavilions
›Folk dance arenas
›Anangpur dam walk

Crafts FairFolk PerformancesHeritage Walk

Location & MapDirections

Reviews (0)

No reviews yet. Be the first to review!

Travel Information

Best time

Feb (mela); Oct–Mar

Entry fee

Mela ₹120–180

Est. budget

₹300–2,000

Duration

Full day

Nearby attractions

Within

2 km

💎 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

3.7 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

3.9 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

6.5 km

💎 Hidden Gem🐅 Wildlife

4.2

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.

Oct–Mar; guided visitsHalf dayExplore

7.4 km

🏞️ Lake

4.0

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.

Oct–MarHalf dayExplore

7.6 km

🛕 Religious

4.3

Kalkaji Mandir

New Delhi, Delhi

An ancient self-manifest goddess shrine on a Kalkaji mound facing Lotus Temple — a 12-sided marble sanctum thronged through Navaratri.

Year-round; Navaratri1 hrExplore

7.9 km

💎 Hidden Gem🏛️ Historical

4.1

Khirki Masjid & Satpula

Delhi, Delhi

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

7.9 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

8 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Museum

4.4

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA)

Delhi, Delhi

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

Year-round (closed Mon)2 hrsExplore

8.1 km

📍 Temple

4.6

Twenty-seven marble petals unfold into a colossal lotus — the Baháʼí House of Worship where people of every faith sit in silence beneath a 34-m central hall. One of the world's most visited buildings, serene amid nine reflecting pools and gardens.

Oct–Mar1–2 hrsExplore

8.3 km

🛕 Religious

4.4

Chattarpur to ISKCON Temple, East of Kailash

New Delhi, Delhi

The Glory of India ISKCON temple — soaring shikharas, the animatronic Vedic-expo, robotic Gita show and the world's largest printed Bhagavad Gita.

Year-round; Janmashtami1–2 hrsExplore

8.7 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