Things to do in Awantipora, Jammu and Kashmir
Awantipora or Avantipur or Aavantipur, known as Woontpor in Kashmiri, is a town, just opposite of Pulwama city, on the banks of the river Jhelum in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
22 places to visit in and around Awantipora, best known first. Tap a place for directions, or let Turkart turn them into a day-by-day plan.
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- 1Avantiswami Temple
The Avantiswami Temple is a ruined Hindu temple complex on the banks of the Jhelum River, approximately 16 km northeast of Pulwama town, in Awantipora, Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
- 2Pari Mahal
Pari Mahal is a seven-terraced Mughal garden built on the top of the Zabarwan mountain range. It overlooks the city of Srinagar and the south-west of Dal Lake in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
- 3Dachigam National Park
Dachigam National Park is a national park located 22 kilometres from Srinagar city in Srinagar district in Kashmir on the east side of Dal Lake in the disputed Kashmir region. It covers an area of about 141 square kilometres.
- 4Tral Wildlife Sanctuary
Tral Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area in Tral town in the Pulwama district of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is located about 26 km from Pulwama town, the district headquarter and 44 km from Union Territory Capital Srinagar.
- 5Gufkral
Gufkral is a site inhabited by potters who utilize the caves. Caves and archeological site are located at Banmir village in the Tral Tehsil of the Pulwama District, in the Kashmir Valley of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
- 6Shankaracharya Temple
- 7Jwala Ji Temple
Jwala Ji Temple or Jwalamukhi Temple is Hindu shrine in the town of Khrew in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The temple is dedicated to the deity Jwala Ji, the Kul Devi of many Kashmiri Hindu families.
- 8Semthan
Semthan, also Semithan is a village 1 km north of Bijbehara in the Anantnag district of the Kashmir Valley in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
- 9Ancient Temple, Ladhoo
Ancient Temple, Ladhoo, is located in the middle of a natural fed pond or spring known as Sanz Haer Nag or Sanyasar Nag in Ladhoo, a village in the Pulwama district of the southern part of the Kashmir Valley of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
- 10Charar-e-Sharief shrine
- 11Pandrethan Shiva Temple
The Pandrethan Shiva temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva at Pandrethan, in the city of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The current structure of the temple dates to c.
- 12Shankaracharya Hill
- 13SPS Museum
The Shri Pratap Singh Museum, commonly known as the SPS Museum, is a museum in Wazir Bagh Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Established in 1898, the museum houses a collection of over 80,000 objects from various regions in Northern India.
- 14Char Chinar
- 15Bumzuva Cave and Temple
Bumzuva cave and temple are a group of Hindu temples and man-made caves in the village of Bumazuv in the Lidder Valley of Anantnag district in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
- 16Tomb of Shams-ud-Din Araqi
Tomb of Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi or Ziyarat e Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi or Araqi Shrine is a religious site of Kashmiri Muslims located at Chadoora, Budgam. In this shrine there is buried Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi and Malik Hyder, a Kashmiri Historian.
- 17Zeashta Devi Shrine
- 18Chashme Shahi
- 19Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Botanical Garden
- 20Holy Family Catholic Church
- 21All Saints Church, Srinagar
- 22St. Luke's Church, Srinagar