If you were living in Sargodha city of Punjab Pakistan or you just reached Sargodha and want to explore outside but near the city for more travel, you were in the right place. Find here Famous & Best Places Around Sargodha Perfect For Short Visit.
Sargodha city itself has amazing tourist destinations for locals and outsiders. The best part due to the city’s geographical condition is that many beautiful locations are also just around the city.
Travel and Tour lovers can easily reach these locations, and within a single day, each place would be easily visited. Actually around the city have many places but we were going to talk about just a few of them mentioned below. 🙂
- Kallar Kahar Chakwal
- Khewra Salt Mines
- River Chenab Chiniot
- Katas Raj Temples
- Rohtas Fort
Kallar Kahar Chakwal
Kallar Kahar is a traveller resort situated at 140 KM from Islamabad right on the Islamabad – Lahore Motorway. The destination was 150 KM away from Sargodha city. This lovely spot is known for its regular greenhouses, peacocks, and a new water lake.
Takht-e-Barbi, a level phase of stone, worked by Mughal Emperor Babar to handle his military upgraded the significance of the hotel. Babar appreciated where he blocked on his way from Kabul to Delhi.
He additionally established a nursery, Bagh-e-Safa, which actually exists. There are additionally rides for youngsters on the bank of the lake. TDCP inn gives lunch and bites. One can visit for a break during an excursion from Islamabad to Lahore or compressed clamp versa. A guest to Khewra can similarly stop at the hotel.
With the influx of experience, in the travel industry shown in Pakistan, many someones are searching for zones to fulfil their hunger for exploration however which are not overly far from residence. 
Neela Wahan (Blue Ponds)
Neela Wahn is a small village at (Tehsil) of Kalar Kahar Chakwal city Punjab, Pakistan. These Blue Ponds are traveller objective. It is outstanding for its regular nurseries, PeaCocks, and Saltwater Lake.
Neela Wahan is the heart of normal waterfalls and new water streams. It’s an optimal area for climbing and setting up camp exercises.
A little unpleasant journey through difficult mountain ways brings you, people, to Neela wahan a famous Chashma Aab-e-Hayat at that slope place. Neela wahan additionally spells (Neelan wahan/Neelan waahn/Neela when ). Lovely water stream for the most part in blue shading that draws in numerous sightseers when they see it once. Near the Salt reach because of slope region it excellence is extraordinary, wonderful scene of rich green and rough mountain with a crisscross climb on rock and through meagre woods bring you down to from height of 700 m.
From the top, you get a more clear perspective of the region in the entirety of its lavishness and quietness. It is the best spot for travellers, who are restless to go touring to another spot.
That, in any case, makes this place a secret pearl simply ready to be investigated and assuming you are the sort who loves to investigate the neglected. It is a middle spot and closest to Kallar Kahar and Soon valley, another top vacation destination place in Punjab.
Swaik Lake (Khandowa Lake)
To arrive at the lake, voyagers must take the M-2; the lake is a 15-mins drive from the Kallar Khahar area & a 50-mins drive south of the city of Chakwal. The individuals who need to visit the Katas Raj sanctuaries might be satisfied to realize that the complex is around 24 km away from the Lake.
Swaik Lake is frequently called Khandowa (or Khandoya) lake, named after the limited Khandowa clan. It is said that they were a family of Rajputs from Haryana, India, who got comfortable Chakwal where the water was ‘sweet’ (Khandowa comes from the Punjabi word ‘Khand’ that signifies ‘sweet’). Relatives of the clan are as yet gotten comfortable in the region and are commonly known to join up with the military.
There is a 45-minute trip down to the water,
The lake is lovely and exceptionally invigorating to swim in, with its quiet water and encompassing regular precipices. Swaik Lake is somewhat bigger than different lakes. Lake is additionally flaunted bluff plunging exercises, with guests contending to see who can track down the most elevated spot from which to bounce.
There is no neighbourhood booth or side-of-the-road bistro. However, families and college understudies come to the lake with enormous excursion bushels, prepared for a decent lunch. As of late, in any case, local people have put a pointed wall around the lake to forestall littering of the area.
It is said that the best and ideal opportunity to visit this region is either the long periods of July and August toward the beginning of the stormy season or in February and March when the climate starts to heat up fully expecting summer’s appearance.
Khewra Salt Mines
Khewra Salt Mine is an authoritative sub-division of the locale Jehlum, Punjab. The directions of the Salt Range are 32’38’52.58 in the north and 73’00’30.22 in the east. The mine is situated in the Salt Range of level Potohar and is viewed as the second-biggest salt mine on the planet.
It is viewed as one of the most seasoned salt mines on the planet which involves 18 working levels including 40 kilometres in length burrow inside the mine. Salt found inside the mine had a sporadic construction.
Seven salt creases are found inside the mine which is 150 meters thick. The distance of the salt mine from Sargodha city is around 150 KM and through M2 Lahore 2 hours and 40 minutes required to reach.
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River Chenab Chiniot
Chiniot Bridge is an old excellent extension that is totally made of iron. The street runs over the highest point of the rail line track. The scaffold associates Chiniot with Chenab Nagar (old name Rabwa), disregarding the Chenab waterway. The old scaffold for the street was extremely tight.
Another scaffold is simply developed in favour of the old iron extension. The slope in the stream divided the waterway and made it simple to develop the scaffold in two sections. The East channel has 6 ranges of 40-meter length while the west channel has 7 ranges of a similar length.
It is an extremely grand excursion point. Paddling boats are accessible here to give a noteworthy waterway experience.
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Katas Raj Temples
The temples of Katas Raj are an attractive historical place to visit. Actually, the Shri Katas Raj Temple has various old Hindu religious historical temples. This tourist destination is also well famous as “Qila Katas” around the local areas of Punjab. The temple was located in the Potohar state of Punjab Pakistan, near Kallar Kahar Chakwal.
Pakistani government reconstructs the Katas Raj in the year 2006, many additional construction changes were held in 2017. It is famous that Hindu leader Krishna made the foundation of the temple. Katas Raj temple was also once the part of the famous poem “Mahabharata“. This amazing visiting place is at least 2 and half hours far from Sargodha city. So you can also make your day best by visiting this beautiful and famous Qila Katas.
Rohtas Fort
Rohtas Fort of Jhelum, privately known as Qila Rohtas, was dispatched by Sher Sha Suri in 1541 after the loss of Mughal head Humayun. It is situated on popular GT Road close to Jhelum city. This solid fortification with huge dividers was underlying only a 7 years time frame and was finished after the demise of Sher Shah Suri.
It was a significant and strategic military post of a possibility to hinder Mughal King Hamayun’s re-visitation of India who was living in banishment in Persia and to pound nearby insubordination clans of Potohar.
Post Was based on an ideal area with steep rough slopes on one side and stream Ghan/Kahan on the other. It takes care of an area of around 4 square km and could hold up to 30,000 men. It has 12 entryways, 3 ventured wells – privately known as baudis or baolis, and the renowned Shahi Mosque.
This chronicled stronghold is a World Heritage site. Rohtas post was not exceptionally well known with Mughal heads. Whenever Hamayun returned following 15 years he hand over this stronghold to the neighbourhood Gakhar clans who were his partners. It was subsequently caught by Sikh rulers and utilized for authoritative purposes.
The chronicled post is announced as the World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997. Global Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the organisation which makes the World Heritage list, made the accompanying proposal:
Rohtas Fort is an extraordinary representative of the Muslim military engineering of focal and South Asia, which mixes building and imaginative customs from Turkey and the Indian sub-mainland to make the model for Mughal creation and its ensuing betterment and transformations.