Attractions Near Statue of Unity

The dam is constructed on the bank of the Narmada river, where you can get a mesmerising view of the world’s tallest statue. It is the 3rd highest concrete dam with a height of 163m and 1210m long. Moreover, this dam has benefited more than 3000 villages of Gujarat for irrigation. It also provides drinking water to around 40 million people.

As far as the volume of cement required for gravity dams is concerned, this dam is the second biggest on the planet with a total volume of 6.82 million cubic metres. It has 30 radical gates, with each gate weighing around 450 tonnes.

The Cactus Garden is situated near the Statue of Unity. The garden possesses 450 species of cactus spread across 25 acres of open land and 836 square metres of land inside the dome. The cactus garden has a solar panel of 8 KW and a nursery for producing succulents and grafted cacti. Moreover, the park has erosion control covers for controlling soil disintegration.

If you are out with your children or you are a child at heart, this place is worth your time and money. It takes 2-3 hours to explore this fun-filled park. Moreover, this park is based on “SAHI POSHAN DESH ROSHAN”, the initiative taken by the Indian Government in providing quality entertainment and vital knowledge to children on healthy eating habits and nutritional values.

The park includes a short train journey that will stop at nine different stations, and each station will have its theme. Furthermore, this park has an adult play zone and a 5D movie theatre.

This garden highlights and illustrates Gujarat’s growing culture in the dark. It has a unique theme of using LED and other lights to bring radiance in the dark. Unity Glow Garden in Kevadia is presumably the first Glow Garden in India to bring joy and happiness to people’s lives and faces. It has been created with a gleaming formation of optical illusions, figures, and installations. There are numerous natural establishments, different creatures and birds, LED fountains with shining lights, and so on. It was planned so as to make a zone that gives a glorifying vibe in the nights and to empower the night-tourism industry to flourish nearby the Statue of Unity.

This place is situated close to Sardar Sarovar Dam along the bank of the Narmada river. There are tents and treehouses for your convenience. Also, it has amenities like a kid’s playground, open-air fire zone, amphitheatre, nursery, painting units with homegrown colours for youngsters, nature schooling, etc.

The most beloved and adventurous water sport ‘Rafting’ has been accommodated at the site for tourists. You get a phenomenal chance to encounter this thrilling water sport. Furthermore, tourists will appreciate exercises like river crossing, rope walking at Burma Bridge, waterway boating, tubing, rock climbing, and rappelling. Add this to your travel list if you are looking for adventurous tourist places near the Statue of Unity.

Gujarat has numerous palaces that display the struggles, heritage, and royalty of early princes. But most of them have degraded with time. However, the Rajavant palace still embraces its regalness and culture of the state.

The Rajvant Palace Resort is a piece of the 7-acre Vijayraj royal residence complex developed for Maharajah Vijay Singhji in 1915. The royal residence looks like a run-of-the-mill European manor, with its Romanesque vault, traditional sections, Greek capitals, Venetian entryways, and Gothic curves. The insides are decorated in unique period furniture. A couple of castle rooms are reserved for portraits, mirrors, textiles, ceramics and glass.

Any trip without visiting a religious place or historic place is incomplete. Gujarat has a lot of pilgrim sites and temples, but the Nilkanth Dham Swaminarayan temple to date is recognised as auspicious for visitors. This temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu and is located at the bank of the Narmada river in Poicha village, about 60KM from the Statue of Unity.

The temple consists of some magnificent-looking sculptures, and devotees find this place fascinating with positive spiritual energy.

In Indian culture, a trip is considered complete if you have shown gratitude to God for keeping everything reasonable and settled. To follow these norms, Arti at the ghat of Narmada river is being performed by the Shulpaneshwar Mahadev trust. The Arti is combined with tribal music. Over 6 thousand people can join the Arti ceremony. The Prashad is made by tribal farmers and is distributed among people. The visitor can accompany the priest and tribal people to Arti and take the blessing.