About Ranchi
Ranchi is
one of the oldest city and state capital of Jharkhand about 23 years back it
was carved out from Bihar and came into inception of new state Jharkhand, popularly
known as the city of picturesque waterfalls inviting tourists from all over the
world to have a visit and spend some calm and quiet moment in its meadow.
Previously it was the 2nd or summer capital of Bihar due to its
moderate climate; it has also very old deep rooted cultural and historical
importance too. It comes under tribal state as about 28% population of this
state are tribal’s with rich culture and celebrate their festival with great
zeal and enthusiasm. Sarhul is one of them, which is celebrated in the month of
April every year, in which young boys and girls in red and white attire dance
all the way in the city after having good traditional food and slurping locally
made Handia highly intoxicant beverages.
If you are
in Ranchi then there are few places to visit must:-
1.
Jagganth
Temple,
2.
Pahari
Mandir,
3.
Rock
Garden,
4.
Sun
Temple, Bundu
5.
Rock
Garden,
6.
Nakshatra
Van
As per the history goes previously it
was called ‘Archi’ later village Kishunpur called in Ranchi from 1927. The city
is situated at the ‘Subarn Rekha river and its municipality was formed in 1869.
This city is also surrounded by scenic beauty and cascading waterfalls namely:-
1.
Hundroo
waterfalls,
2.
Dasham
waterfalls,
3.
Sita
waterfalls,
4.
Tiru
waterfalls
5.
Hirni
waterfalls,
6.
Panch
Ghagh waterfalls,
7.
Rajrappa
waterfalls,
8.
Lodh
waterfalls,
All the waterfalls are in the radius
of 35 to 40 Kms and are must visit tourist spot. Rachities like to have traditional food such as Litti
Chokha, Dhuska, Handia, Rugra (found in the month of July-August), Malpua,
Bamboo shoots, Thekua.
As the days
passed now Ranchi city turned into like a modern Metros, so lot of big city
malls, modern restaurants, picture halls, 3 to 5 star hotels has come up and
skyscrapers adoring the city and at the same time is also famous for premier
Technical Institute B.I.T.Mesra, Amity University, D.A.V. Schools, D.P.Schools which
are producing talented students every year.
Text
and Photos by- Ashok Karan,
Ashokkaran.blogspot.com,
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