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Bāba Bakāla

Baba Bakala is a historical town and tehsil in the Amritsar district in Punjab, India.

Bāba Bakāla
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The place

Baba Bakala is a historical town and tehsil in the Amritsar district in Punjab, India. It is known as the location of Gurdwara Baba Bakala Sahib.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bāba Bakāla

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Gurdwara Baba Bakala Sahib

    Gurdwara Baba Bakala Sahib is a prominent Sikh Gurdwara in Baba Bakala, Punjab, India which is about 42 km from Amritsar. It is known for its association with the 9th Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Mata Ganga and Baba Makhan Shah Lubana.

    200 m · building in India · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bāba Bakāla

Airports
Sri Guru Ram Das Ji (ATQ), 48 km · Allama Iqbal (LHE), 82 km · Halwara (HWR), 96 km
Stations
Beas Junction railway station, 4.6 km · Baba Bakalaraya railway station, 2.9 km
  • Amritsar → Bāba Bakāla
    38 km · quickest by road, 51 min · ₹275–340
  • Halwara → Bāba Bakāla
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · ₹900–1,120
  • Chandigarh → Bāba Bakāla
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h · ₹1,250–1,570
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bāba Bakāla

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bāba Bakāla. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt is approximately 70 kilometres from Qadian, and most flights are usually from and to Delhi although the airport also has traffic from international destinations, such as Doha (Qatar), Sharjah (UAE), Birmingham and London (UK).}} Uber is available in this region and taxis as well as rickshaws can be requested through this service.
  • Get inLocal Rickshaws will also take you to Qadian.

From Wikivoyage: Qadian, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Tirthan ValleyIN

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    205 km
  2. 02
    KazaIN

    7 ways of moving, 18 sources

    275 km
  3. 03
    ChitkulIN

    7 ways of moving, 20 sources

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  4. 04
    LehIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    362 km
  5. 05
    MunsiyariIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    503 km

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Around it

Next door to Bāba Bakāla

Bāba Bakāla is 38 km from Amritsar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.