All Travel Places in Orissa

Gopalpur-on-Sea
Details: is a popular beach resort located 170km from Bhubaneswar. This is a perfect beach, fairly isolated, and undisturbed by day-trippers and is good for both sailing and surfing. It is one of the most pristine beaches of Orissa. Once a humming seaport Gopalpur offers its visitors a slice of serenity in environs that are conducive to introspection and conviviality. You can still see the crumbl ...

CHILKA
: Located southwest of Puri, Chilka Lake is Asia's largest lagoon dotted with islands and noted for the many migratory birds like osprey, grey-legged geese, herons, cranes and flamingoes, which flock to the nestling sanctuary in winter. The shallow lake, about 70km long and averaging 15km wide, is separated from the sea by a long low sand bar. These shallow waters enclose ...

Lingaraja Temple
dedicated to Tribhuvaneshwar (a form of Shiva) or the Lord of the Three Worlds, this temple is a prime example of Indian architecture, in its most mature and fully developed state. Its present form dates back to the 11th century, although parts of it are over 1400 years old. The presiding deity, here, is the Swayambhu Linga - half Shiva, half Vishnu, a unique feature of the temple.

Bindu Sagar
or the Ocean Drop Tank, lying just north of the Lingaraja temple, is said to contain water from every holy stream, pool and tank in India - obviously a good place to wash away sin. There are a number of temples and shrines scattered around the tank. In the centre of the tank is a water pavilion where, once a year, the Lingaraja temple's deity is brought for ritual bathing

Nandankanan
located about 20km away and picturesquely carved out of the Chandaka forest, this is a Biological Park where animals are kept in their natural habitat. A centrally located lake divides the Zoo from the Botanical Gardens. Tigers, lions, clouded leopards, black panthers, European brown bear, Himalayan black bear, Gharials, rosy pelican, Indian python and the king cobra, are among the many attraction ...

Lalitgiri, Udaigiri & Ratnagiri
Are three-hilltop complexes northeast of Cuttack and about 100km from Bhubaneswar, where some remarkable Buddhist relics and ruins can be found. Together they make up the mini golden triangle of Orissa's amazing Buddhist legacy. A gold casket, thought to contain the relics of the Buddha was discovered at Lalitgiri. Udaigiri has its own monastery complex and a brick st ...

KONARK
The magnificent Sun Temple at Konark is the culmination of Orissan temple architecture and one of the most stunning monuments of religious architecture in the world. It is 36km from Puri and 64km from Bhubaneswar. It was constructed in the mid-13th century, but little is known about its early history. Konark was an important port from early times and was known to the geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd ...

Jagannath Temple
is the distinctive temple that makes Puri one of the dhams. The temple is dedicated to Jagannath, Lord of the Universe, who is an incarnation of Vishnu. It was built in 1198 by Chodaganga to commemorate the shifting of his capital from south to central Orissa. It stands in a compound on the Nilgiri Hill, and is surrounded by a 20ft high wall, within which lie several smaller shrines. A traditional ...

MUKTESWAR TEMPLE
- The small and elegant Mukteswara temple is often referred to as the "miniature gem of Orissan architecture". The frequency with which the term 'gem' is employed will be immediately appreciated with the very first glimpse of this delicate, refined little structure.In addition to its beauty, the Mukteswara is important as a transition point between the early and later phases of the 'Kalinga' Schoo ...

Udaygiri Caves
13km from Sanchi and 4km from Vidisha are a group of 20 rock-cut Gupta cave shrines, carved into a sandstone hill that stand, sentinel like, on the horizon. An inscription on one of these caves states that they were produced during the reign of Chandragupta II (382-401 AD), thus dating these caves to 4-5th century AD.