Sonepur Cattle Fair Ground
The ground of the largest cattle fair in Asia, empty for most of the year and enormous for a fortnight.
- Where
- Sonepur, Bihar, India
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 25.7000, 85.1800
Get the Sonepur Cattle Fair Ground stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Sonepur Cattle Fair Ground. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Bihar volume with your photos and a note.
Near Sonepur Cattle Fair Ground
Digha-Sonpur Bridge 8.0 km
J. P. Setu, carrying road and rail across the Ganga between Patna and Sonpur.
Mahatma Gandhi Setu 9.1 km
Nearly six kilometres of bridge over the Ganga between Patna and Hajipur, opened in 1982.
Golghar 9.8 km
A beehive granary built in 1786 against famine, never filled, with a hundred and forty five steps spiralling up the outside.
Patna Museum 11 km
The old Jadughar of 1917, holding the Didarganj Yakshi and a casket said to carry the Buddha's ashes.
Sher Shah Suri Masjid 11 km
Sher Shah's mosque at Patna, Afghan in its arches, built while he held Delhi.
Kumhrar 11 km
What is left of Pataliputra: an eighty pillared hall from the Mauryan palace, in a park.
Bihar Museum 12 km
The Didarganj Yakshi, and how the state tells its own story.
Takht Sri Patna Sahib 13 km
The birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh, and one of the five seats of temporal authority in Sikhism.
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Questions
Where is Sonepur Cattle Fair Ground?
Sonepur Cattle Fair Ground is in Sonepur, Bihar. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Digha-Sonpur Bridge (8.0 km), Mahatma Gandhi Setu (9.1 km), Golghar (9.8 km).
How do I get the Sonepur Cattle Fair Ground stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Sonepur Cattle Fair Ground and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Bihar volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Sonepur Cattle Fair Ground before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Bihar volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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