Zirakpur
Zirakpur is a town in Mohali District, Punjab, neighboring Mohali, India.
Zirakpur is a town in Mohali District, Punjab, neighboring Mohali, India. It is set on the foothills of Shivalik hills. It is part of the tehsil Dera Bassi. It is the gateway to Chandigarh from Delhi. This town is situated on the junction of national highways Himalayan Expressway, National Highway 5 (India) towards Shimla, Ambala Chandigarh Expressway towards Ambala and National Highway 7 (India) towards Patiala.
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Worth seeing in and around Zirakpur
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.
- 01Chhatbir Zoo
Chhatbir Zoo, is a zoological park situated close to Zirakpur, India. The zoo was constructed in the 1970s and is home to a large variety of birds, mammals and reptiles.
5.8 km · zoo in Chandigarh, India · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Mahendra Chaudhary Zoological Park
From Wikivoyage: Zirakpur, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Saffron
6 Dakshin Marg,.
From Wikivoyage: Zirakpur, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Zirakpur
- Airports
- Shaheed Bhagat Singh (IXC), 4 km · Halwara (HWR), 114 km · Maharaja Agrasen (HSS), 193 km
- Stations
- Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport, 4 km · Ghaggar railway station, 5.1 km
- Halwara → Zirakpur113 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · ₹960–1,190
- Hisar → Zirakpur198 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · ₹1,550–1,940
- Amritsar → Zirakpur214 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · ₹1,540–1,930
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No local-transport research exists yet for Zirakpur
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 Zirakpur. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAuto rickshaws on sharing basis also ply the Zirakpur Chandigarh Road.
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Zirakpur is 10 km from Chandigarh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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