Umarha
Umaraha is a census town in Varanasi tehsil of Varanasi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Umaraha is a census town in Varanasi tehsil of Varanasi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The census town & village falls under the Umaraha gram panchayat. Umarha Census town & village is about 12 kilometers North-East of Varanasi railway station, 317 kilometers South-East of Lucknow and 17 kilometers North-East of Banaras Hindu University main gate.
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Worth seeing in and around Umarha
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.
- 01Sarnath Museum
Sarnath Museum, or Archaeological Museum Sarnath, is the oldest site museum of the Archaeological Survey of India. It houses the findings and excavations at the archaeological site of Sarnath, by the Archaeological Survey of India.
4.3 km · archaeological museum in Saranath · Wikipedia - 02Buddha Preaching his First Sermon
The Buddha Preaching his First Sermon is a stone sculpture of the 5th-century CE showing Gautama Buddha in the "teaching posture" or dharmachakra pravartana mudrā. The relief is 160 cm tall, and was excavated at Sarnath, India by F. O. Oertel during the 1904–1905 excavation season of the Archaeological Survey of India; it was found in an area to the south of the Dhamek Stupa.
4.4 km · 5th-century sculpture from Sarnath, India · Wikipedia - 03Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies
The Central University for Tibetan Studies, formerly called the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, is a Deemed University founded in Sarnath, Varanasi, India, in 1967. It is an autonomous university under India's Ministry of Culture.
5 km · deemed university in Varanasi, India · Wikipedia - 04Swarved Mahamandir
Swarved Mahamandir is a charitable meditation centre built in Varanasi and inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and with its seven-storey claims to be the biggest meditation centre in the World. The centre is built with an estimated cost of Rs 100 crores and has a seating capacity of 20,000 people at a time.
1.8 km · Hindu temple at Varanasi, India · Wikipedia - 05Sarnath Jain Tirth
Sarnath Jain Tirth, also called the Shreyanshnath Jain Pilgrimage, is a group of Jain temples in Sarnath. They are located near Dhamek Stupa.
4.2 km · jain temple in the state of Uttar Pradesh · Wikipedia
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Getting to Umarha
- Airports
- Lal Bahadur Shastri (VNS), 21 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 238 km · Chaudhary Charan Singh (LKO), 265 km
- Lucknow → UmarhaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Siliguri → UmarhaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Gautam Buddha Nagar → UmarhaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Umarha
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 Umarha. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inLocal bus No107E departs from near Varanasi Cantt train station (coordinates: 25°19.74981'N, 82°59.36062'E), and costs ₹25 (2023) to Sarnath The town is easily reached by taxi or auto rickshaw from Varanasi.
- Get inYou can negotiate a better rate with an autorickshaw driver, outside the station.
- Get inIf you have tons of luggage though, go with the taxi -- it won't fit in the rickshaw.
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Umarha is 10 km from Varanasi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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