Safapora
Safapora, also pronounced as Safapur is a model village in Ganderbal District, Jammu and Kashmir, India in the disputed Kashmir region.
Safapora, also pronounced as Safapur is a model village in Ganderbal District, Jammu and Kashmir, India in the disputed Kashmir region. It is 13 km (8.1 mi) away from district headquarter Ganderbal and 30 km (19 mi) away from the summer capital Srinagar via Sumbal as well as via Ganderbal. Manasbal Lake, the deepest lake in India, is located in Safapora and is surrounded by two Mughal gardens built by Nur Jahan, Qazi Bagh and Jarokha Bagh. There is a Wular Manasbal development authority run by state government in Safapora. The area serves as the education hub for the adjoining areas of Chanderger, Hakbara, Asham, Chewa, and Kondabal. In addition, some students from Bandipora District also prefer to receive their education in Safapora. The Safapora area has also good literacy rate. Safapora is also a tourist destination and most tourists visit the Manasbal Lake, the surrounding two parks, Fisheries. Jammu and Kashmir Government College of Engineering and Technology is also located in Safapora.
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Worth seeing in and around Safapora
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.
- 01Manasbal Lake
Manasbal Lake is the deepest freshwater lake found in the Safapora area of Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Named after the sacred Manasarovar.
1.4 km · lake in Jammu and Kashmir, India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Safapora
- Airports
- Srinagar (SXR), 32 km · Skardu (KDU), 144 km · Islamabad (ISB), 187 km
- Amritsar → Safapora294 km · quickest by air, 5h 19m · ₹5,210–7,790
- Halwara → Safapora404 km · quickest by air, 4h 58m · ₹5,820–8,770
- Chandigarh → Safapora439 km · quickest by air, 5h 16m · ₹6,220–9,380
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No local-transport research exists yet for Safapora
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Next door to Safapora
Safapora is 23 km from Srinagar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.