Places to visit in Jharkhand
28 places to visit in Jharkhand, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Jagannath Temple, Ranchi, Maluti Temples, Baidyanath Temple and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Jharkhand volume.
2 State heritage sites · 6 Famous places to visit · 20 Hidden gems
State heritage sites in Jharkhand (2)
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Jagannath Temple, Ranchi
A hill temple of 1691 built as a copy of Puri, with its own chariot festival.
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Maluti Temples
Seventy two terracotta temples left of an original one hundred and eight, in a village of a few hundred people.
Famous places to visit in Jharkhand (6)
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Baidyanath Temple
One of the twelve jyotirlingas, reached in the month of Shravan by pilgrims walking a hundred kilometres with river water.
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Maithon Dam
A dam near Dhanbad, nearly five kilometres of it end to end, and a day out for everyone in Asansol.
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Mccluskieganj
An Anglo Indian colony that almost became a country.
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Netarhat
A plateau at eleven hundred metres called the queen of Chotanagpur, with sal forest and long views west.
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Panchet Dam
The last of the four Damodar Valley dams, opened at Panchet in 1959.
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Parasnath Hill
The highest hill in Jharkhand and the holiest Jain site anywhere, where twenty of the twenty four tirthankaras attained release.
Hidden gems in Jharkhand (20)
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Betla National Park
One of the first nine tiger reserves declared in 1974, with two Chero forts standing inside the forest.
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Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary
Elephants above the steel city.
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Dassam Falls
The Kanchi river over a forty four metre drop in ten separate streams, which is where the name comes from.
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Dimna Lake
Tata's reservoir, and the town's Sunday.
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Hazaribagh Wildlife Sanctuary
Sal and bamboo on the Chota Nagpur plateau, with watchtowers built over waterholes for counting.
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Hirni Falls
A fall in the forest west of Ranchi, on the Bhanwar, with a picnic ground below it.
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Hundru Falls
The Subarnarekha dropping ninety eight metres over a rock face, in full spate only after the rains.
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Itkhori
Buddhist, Jain and Hindu carving in one compound.
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Jonha Falls
Water dropping forty three metres into a pool at the bottom of seven hundred and twenty steps.
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Lodh Falls
The highest fall in the state, off the Netarhat plateau.
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Massanjore Dam
The Canada dam, on the Mayurakshi.
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Pahari Mandir
A hill in the middle of the city, and the flag on top.
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Palamu Fort
Two Chero forts in the middle of a tiger reserve.
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Panchghagh Falls
The Banai splitting into five streams and coming down together, near Khunti.
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Patratu Valley
The road with the hairpins everybody photographs.
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Rajrappa
Chhinnamasta where two rivers meet.
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Sadni Falls
A fall on the Shankh in Gumla, sixty metres, and the crowd comes in the rains.
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Tagore Hill
Where Jyotirindranath Tagore built and wrote.
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Tilaiya Dam
The first of the four Damodar Valley dams, opened on the Barakar in 1953.
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Usri Falls
The Usri splitting into three and dropping forty feet, east of Giridih.
Collecting in Jharkhand
What are the best places to visit in Jharkhand?
LOQAH lists 28 places in Jharkhand. The best known include Jagannath Temple, Ranchi, Maluti Temples, Baidyanath Temple, Maithon Dam and Mccluskieganj. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Jharkhand?
28, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Jharkhand?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Jharkhand before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Jharkhand and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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