Mardan

Worth seeing in and around Mardan

5 places 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
   Seri Bahlol

   Seri Bahlol, also Sahr-i Bahlol or Sahri Bahlol, is a city and archaeological site located near Takht-i-Bahi, in Mardan District, about 70 kilometer north-west of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

   9.2 km · archaeological site in Pakistan · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Mardan Museum

   Mardan Museum is located in the Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The museum was first established in 1991 in a Town Hall with a single hall with 22 show cases displaying more than 90 Gandhara's sculptures by the supervision of Sahibzada Riaz Noor.

   1 km · museum in Pakistan · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Kashmir Smast

   The Kashmir Smast caves, also called Kashmir Smats, are a series of natural limestone caves, artificially expanded from the Kushan to the Shahi periods, situated in the Babuzai Sakrah mountains in the Katlang Valley Mardan in Northern Pakistan. According to recent scholarship based on a rare series of bronze coins and artifacts found in the region, the caves and their adjacent valley probably comprised a sovereign kingdom in Gandhara which maintained at least partial independence for almost 500 years, from c.

   700 m · cave in Pakistan · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan

   The Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan is a public university located in the Mardan District of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Named after Abdul Wali Khan, the university has forty nine institutions affiliated with it.

   5.9 km · public university in Mardan, Pakistan · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Bacha Khan Medical College

   Bacha Khan Medical College is a public medical education institution located in Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It has been named after Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, also known as Bacha Khan.

   5.5 km · college in Pakistan · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Takht-i-Bahi

   Exceptionally well-preserved ancient Buddhist monastery dating back to the Indo-Parthian Kingdom.

2. 02
   Mardan Museum
3. 03
   Bacha Khan Monument

   Dedicated to Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pashtun freedom fighter and independence activist against British colonial rule in India known for his nonviolent opposition and lifelong pacifism.

4. 04
   Guides Memorial

   Built in 1892 to honour fallen soldiers who fought during the 1879 Siege of the British Residency in Kabul.

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Where to eat

A number of newly opened restaurants provide local and international dishes at good prices.There are a number of new restaurants and cafes like "The Bakery Cafe", Italian Pizza, Sheliton Hotel, Pizza Hut, Royal Hotel and Marhaba Bakery.The special Badayoni Paira of Mardan are famous all over the region.All of these cafes are located on Nowshera Road.

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Getting to Mardan

Airports

Bacha Khan (PEW), 52 km · Islamabad (ISB), 104 km · Srinagar (SXR), 254 km

Stations

Mardan Junction, 1.9 km · Kalpani railway station, 6 km

• Peshawar → Mardan

  48 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · ₨460–610
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• Attock → Mardan

  56 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · ₨560–750
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• Sialkot → Mardan

  298 km · quickest by road, 5h 50m · ₨2,740–3,650
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