Kurukshetra

Kurukshetra is a holy city in Haryana. It was the site of a battle described in the Indian epic the Mahabarata. One of the most sacred parts of that story, and one of the most famous passages in all of Hindu scripture, takes place just before the battle. It is called the Bhagavad Gita and is a dialog between the warrior Arjuna and the God Krishna who serves as his charioteer.

Get in
Kurukshetra is approximately north of New Delhi and is most often reached by road or rail from there.

By train
Kurukshetra is a junction on the main track of the Amritsar - New Delhi rail line, 250 km from Amritsar. A train to Kurukshetra can be taken from either New Delhi Railway Station or from Old Delhi railway station, and Nizzamuddin as well. Train takes two and half hours to reach Kurukshetra from Delhi.

By car
The Grand Trunk Road or National Highway No 1 passes by Kurukshetra, so it is easy to reach by road from Amritsar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh or New Delhi, and there is also direct connectivity to Haridwar and Patiala. Kurukshetra is about 90km south of Chandigarh.

By bus
You can catch a bus to Kurukshetra from Indraparasth bus station in New Delhi. You can get a bus from Kashmiri Gate Bus station. Travelling from Delhi to Karnal by bus takes normally 3 to 4 hours depending on the traffic conditions in city range of Delhi. You can catch a bus from Chandigarh ISBT and Delhi ISBT.

Get around
Auto-rickshaws (three-wheelers, shared) are the only available option to move around the city.

See




Movies
The city has several cinema halls with the classical single screen format. The city has a single mall named Kessel with 3 screen multiplexes, and another multiplex will be opened shortly in another mall called Divine Business Park.

Eat

 * Chats around Bramha Sarovar and main city (Thanesar)
 * Multicuisine at Kimaya, Mezbaan, Saffron
 * Chicken items at Crown Hotel (Pipli)
 * Chole Bhature on Railway Road
 * Poori with petha and chole in old city (near ambedkar chowk)
 * University Cafeteria for south Indian cuisine

Drink
Parakeet resort (Haryana Tourism) serves hard drinks. There are no objections for guests to bring their liquor and consume it in their room. Most of the hotels follow the same pattern.

Sleep
There are many dharmshalas for a budget accommodations, a few are:


 * Agarwala Dharamshala, near railway station.
 * Brahman Dharamshala, near old bus stand.
 * Jat Dharmashala, near Birla Mandir.
 * Saini Samaj Bhavan

For a better accommodation hotels are:
 * Neelkanth

Go next

 * Chandigarh (95 km by road or rail)
 * Karnal (35 km)
 * Ludhiana (181 km)
 * New Delhi (150 km)
 * Patiala (100 km)
 * Kasauli (138 km)