Beed

Beed is a city in Marathwada. It has a few interesting monuments that justify a stopover, possibly even with an overnight stay.

Understand
Bid was founded in the 13th century. The residents are not used to foreign travellers and are happy about the interest in their city.

Get in

 * Latur Airport is the nearest airport
 * Bid is not on a railway line.
 * The bus station is not far from the city centre in the west of the city.

Buildings
Heading north-west from Kankaleshwar Temple towards the river bank, well-preserved sections of the city fortifications and the Kotwali Gate can be seen.

Parli Vaijnath
The name of the town symbolizes the Jyotirlinga. There is a shakti peeth of Goddess Yogeshwari which has a prominent place.

Parli Vaijnath is has one of the main thermal power stations, which is only open for the public on the Vijayadashami (Dashera).

In Parli Vaijnath there are many more temples the prominent of these are: Dakshinmukhi Ganesh Mandir (the idol of Ganesha is without the trunk), Shani Mandir, Zuralya Gopinath Mandir, Vitthal Mandir, Rajasthani Balaji Mandir, Sant Jagmitra Maharaj Mandir, sopan kaka mandir, Kalratri Devi, Ayappa Mandir.

In Parli there are main three holy water Tirthas (Harihar, Narayan, and Markendya Tirth) which are having very great importance in Puranas also. There is a well developed garden on the hill behind the temple known as Meru Parvat from where you can have a very great view of the town.

There is very famous goddess temple known as Dongar Tukai on the hill 5 km away from the main city. There is one more Shiva Temple in Jirewadi around 5-6 km away from the main city known as Someshwar which very famous. The main importance of this place is that even the Someshwar linga is on the hill still there is always water 12 months in a year around the linga without known source.

Parli Vaijnath is well connected by rail and road. There is a good network of South Central Railway and State Transport Bus Service.

Sleep

 * Hotel Atithi, south of the bus station