Bhopal - Heart of M.P

This blog help the viewer to know about Bhopal's beautiful places for picnic, sight-seeing and adventurous sports like Tribal Museum,Kerwa Dam,Taj-ul-Masjid,Boat Club,Van Vihar and many more.......
         

  Nowadays , streets of Bhopal have become a favorite location for the filmmakers and television industry.Some Bollywood films like Satyagraha , Aarakshan, Rajneeti, Gali Gali Chor Hai , Peepli Live and Chakravyuh etc ., and television serials  like Qubool Hai , Punar Vivaah and Beintehaa etc. ,are shooted  in Bhopal .

PLACES TO VISIT  IN BHOPAL

   Taj-ul-Masjid

 The Taj-ul-Masjid literally means 'The Crown of Mosques'. True to its name it is one of it is one of the largest mosques in Asia, built by Nawab Shahjehan Begum .It is a 19th century mosque with a magnificent structure. The sprawling mosque is situated in Bhopal, the capital city of Madhya Pradesh.It has a courtyard with a large tank in the centre and with an imposing double storeyed gate-way with 4 recessed archways and 9 imposing cusped multifoiled openings in the main prayer hall. The Quibla wall in the prayer hall is carved with 11 recessed arches, while the mimber is made of black basalt.

 Bharat Bhavan         



   In February 1982, a unique cultural complex called Bharat Bhavan opened in Bhopal.It is a centre for the performing and visual arts built and designed by the well known architect Charles Correa, the complex is set in a number of low buildings cunningly woven around the banks of the lake.The centre houses a museum of the arts, an art gallery, a workshop for fine arts, a repertory theater, indoor and outdoor auditorium, a rehearsal room and libraries of Indian poetry, classical and folk music. Here in one compound are the Rang Mandal, the theatre repertory, Anhad, the hall for classical music, Vagarth, the poetry library, Bahirang, the open air auditorium and Roopankar, the museum of art.

TO VISIT : Open from 2 pm to 8 pm every day except Mondays. 



 Van Vihar 

It is located in the heart of the Bhopal city.Van Vihar was declared as National Park on 26th January 1983. It covers an areas of 445.21 ha. Once a barren area, it has now been transformed in to an oasis of greenery. This is a unique zoo of the country, as the animals are kept here in near natural conditions. Country to the popular belief, animals are not captured from the forests for bringing them here. Most of the animals kept here are either orphaned animals brought here from all parts of Madhya Pradesh or those which have been exchanged with other zoos.


TO VISIT :Open from 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM everyday except Friday.



     Regional Science Centre                                                            

Regional Science Centre was inaugurated on 12 January 1995 by the then president Shankar Dayal Sharma .It is located on Banganga Road on the picturesque Shyamla Hills spread over 5 acres of landscape which includes a 3-acre Science Park it houses a planetarium and about 300 science exhibits related to mechanics, energy, sound, light, atmosphere etc. The museum in the regional science center consists of 3 galleries namely Fun Science Gallery, Atmosphere - The Umbrella Gallery and Energy Gallery and it also houses a small Dinosaur Park and a zoo.It is one of the constituent units of the National Council of Science Museums or NCSM.

TO VISIT: Open from 10.30 am to 6.30 pm on all days except Mondays.

  

                                    

                              Boat Club 


The Chotta Talab (Lower Lake) is divided from the the Bada Talab (Great Lake) by an over-bridge and is six sq km in area, here Madhya Pradesh Tourism's Boat Club on the Upper Lake provides facilities for exciting trips and motor boat ride etc.

 TO VISIT : Open all days.



KERWA DAM

We know that dams generally 

serve the primary purpose of 

retaining water. But do you 

know this place can be the one 

of  the best picnic spot or an 

adventurous trip. Kerwa 

 site has one kilometer of walking area  of green 

surroundings .A large number of people, especially youths, 

visits  the green surroundings on the outskirts of Bhopal for the adventure sports like 

Zip-lining , Bird watching and Monkey crawling etc .




Tribal museum

It is located on Shamla Hills.It describes epic habitat of the Tribes like Gond,Bheel,Korku,Baiga,Sahariya,Kol andBhariya.
It gives us an idea about the houses such as Impression of outer portion of some houses,architectural, style-related, behavioral and material features like food grains container used in tribal homes for creating a partition, keeping food grains safe in vessels and as a canvas for wall paining, keeping household things in cavities made on it while the vacant space in between is used for moving in and out inside the houses.