Channapatna Toy Town
Lacquered wooden toys turned on hand lathes since Tipu Sultan brought Persian craftsmen to teach the trade.
- Where
- Channapatna, Karnataka, India
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 12.6510, 77.2070
Get the Channapatna Toy Town stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Channapatna Toy Town. 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 Karnataka volume with your photos and a note.
Near Channapatna Toy Town
Ramanagara 12 km
Sholay's rocks, and vultures still nesting on them.
Savandurga 31 km
One of Asia's largest monoliths, climbed before breakfast.
Shivanasamudra Falls 40 km
The Kaveri splitting round an island into two falls, and the site of the first hydroelectric station in Asia, from 1902.
Bannerghatta National Park 43 km
Twenty five thousand acres on the city's southern edge, part of an elephant corridor that predates the city.
Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple 51 km
A cave temple in Bengaluru where the sun passes between the horns of a stone bull each Makara Sankranti.
Bull Temple 51 km
A Nandi four and a half metres tall carved from one granite boulder in the sixteenth century, when the town was new.
Mekedatu 51 km
A gorge where the Kaveri narrows enough that a goat is said to have jumped it.
Nageshvara Temple, Bengaluru 52 km
A Chola temple at Begur whose inscription carries the earliest known use of the word Bengaluru.
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Questions
Where is Channapatna Toy Town?
Channapatna Toy Town is in Channapatna, Karnataka. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Ramanagara (12 km), Savandurga (31 km), Shivanasamudra Falls (40 km).
How do I get the Channapatna Toy Town stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Channapatna Toy Town and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Karnataka volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Channapatna Toy Town before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Karnataka volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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