Kotumsar Cave
A limestone cave in Kanger valley with blind fish in its pools, and a kilometre of it open.
- Where
- Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 18.8717, 81.9350
Get the Kotumsar Cave stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Kotumsar Cave. 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 Chhattisgarh volume with your photos and a note.
Near Kotumsar Cave
Kanger Valley National Park 2.0 km
Limestone caves with living stalactites inside a forest park, and one of the last stands of undisturbed sal in the state.
Tirathgarh Falls 11 km
Water dropping in many parallel threads over a stepped rock face inside Kanger Valley.
Chitrakote Falls 45 km
The widest waterfall in India on the Indravati, three hundred metres across in monsoon and a trickle in April.
Danteshwari Temple 62 km
One of the Shakti Peethas, and the heart of Bastar Dussehra.
Barsur 65 km
Ganesh figures and stone temples in a village of five hundred.
Duduma Waterfalls 67 km
A waterfall at the edge of Koraput district, on the Odisha border.
Duduma Falls 73 km
The Machkund dropping into a gorge.
Jagannath Temple, Koraput 82 km
A twentieth century temple where the sanctum is open to everyone, which Puri's is not.
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Questions
Where is Kotumsar Cave?
Kotumsar Cave is in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Kanger Valley National Park (2.0 km), Tirathgarh Falls (11 km), Chitrakote Falls (45 km).
How do I get the Kotumsar Cave stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Kotumsar Cave and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Chhattisgarh volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Kotumsar Cave before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Chhattisgarh volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
Collect your first stamp.
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