Ambakhori
Ambakhori Ambakhori, situated around 90kms north of Nagpur on the bank of the Pench river is an important picnic spot. Main attractions here are the Ambakhori water falls and forests. Winter season is the best time to visit this place.
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Kunwara Bhimsen
Kunwara Bhimsen For the Gonds in Central India, or for that matter many other tribal communities and even Hindus, all roads in the second half of the Chaitra month lead to the Kunwara Bhivsen temple in Parseoni tehsil in Nagpur district. Thousands of them converge from all directions every day for almost a month and quarter to celebrate the birth date of their deity Bhivsen who is supposed to be the fourth dharma guru of the Gond tribe.The celebrations have different forms. For those who have got what they wished from the deity, the celebrations include dancing with beating of drums, animal sacrifice and cooking the meat and eating it as prasad. Those who come seeking something, look forward to talking to the contented worshippers.For thousands of years during the Bhivsen Jatra, tribals from various parts of Maharashtra,Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh throng this temple which lies on the banks of Pench reservoir. Devotees queue up and move in an extremely disciplined manner to perform goat and chicken sacrifice. Even while returning after the prayers they disperse in a proper manner.
Nagardhan
Nagardhan Nagardhan has an ancient Shivalaya namely ‘Koteshwar’.Nagardhan village is just 7 km from ramtek toward south.Once it was capital city of ‘Wakataka’ dynesty.The village also has underground fort one of the rarest of that kind.The Koteshwar temple is situated on out skirt of Nagardhan.There is folk story about this temple.It is said that a curd seller woman would pass along the path every day.She used to offer a bit of curd on ‘Shivling ‘ with her sincere faith.One of the rumour mongers poisoned her husband’s ears that the woman had some kind of illicit relationship.As a result the irritated husband followed the woman with a heavy axe knowing well that her husband was going to make fatal assault on her.The woman prayed lord Shiva to let her join to his spiritual core and at once the Shivling had a crack with tremendous noise to disappear the lady into it.Hence the Shivlinga at Koteshwar is still in cracked condition.The temple is builted with ‘Hemadpanthi style’.It is supposed to be most sacred Shivalaya of vidarbha.The emperor ‘Chandragupt’s daughter’ was married in ‘Wakatak’family.Unfortunatly she turned a widow.The great poet Kalidas was sent to support her in her critical hours.The great poet Kalidas wrote his ‘Meghdoot’ on Ramgiri hills.
Ram Sagar Khindsi
Ram Sagar Khindsi In the British rules then irrigation axperts joined the two hills with an earthan dam in 1902.They arrested the water of ‘Kapila’ and ‘Sur’ river and a large fresh water dam was formed.18 surrounding villages got their land submerged in this dam knowing ‘Ram Sagar’.The large amount of water is ample to provide drinking water to Ramtek town and even supply water for irrigation upto Bhandara district. Number of fisherman get livelihood by fisheries in this fresh water.Recently the spot is also developed as a picnic point.The main wall of dam was built here a small village Khindsi hence it is also known as ‘Khindsi Dam’.And it’s large area upto ‘Gadmandir’ named it as ‘Ramsagar’.