Bhedaghat Jabalpur

Bhedaghat Attraction : Bhedaghat or Bheraghat is a must see tourist destination of Jabalpur city tour. Visitors often do visit of Bheraghat at first during Jabalpur Sightseeing and captures Bhedaghat pictures on their cameras. Its name is derived from its original name called Bhairav-ghat. Generally it is a very first choice to tourists to visit Bhedaghat and do boating in between erected marble rocks. Marble rocks in Bheraghat are in various colors like white, pink, blue etc. Although Marble rocks are their in Bhedaghat but its mining is not allowed in that area but one can find small show pieces of marble from rural market at reasonable price.

Many Bollywood movies have been shot in Bhedaghat like Shahrukh Khan's Ashoka movie, Lt. Raj Kapoor's Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behte Hai etc. If you visit Bhedaghat Jabalpur then must visit Chousat Yogini Temple & Dhuandhar. During visit one can do ropeway ride in Bhedaghat to get best view of Dhuandhar fall. Ropeway Timing is 10:30 to 18:30 every-day, charge is 55/- per person for to & fro. Similarly boating in Bhedaghat is also good experience for tourists. For accomodation in Bhedaghat, hotels like MP Tourism hotel called "Motel Marble Rocks", private hotel "Hotel River View", Hotel Shagun etc. During monsoon season, i.e. in months of July, August, September, boating in Narmada river cannot be enjoyed (Boating closed in Monsoon) Usually Bhedaghat sightseeing takes 2-3 hours including Chousat Yogini temple and Dhuandhar falls. During visit one should come with quality camera, sun-hats.

Attraction near Bhedaghat :

Chausath Yogini Temples : One kilometer ahead of Bhedaghat is the group of temples built by Kalchuri Kings, with Red Sand Stone on Narmada River. It is 4 - 5 Mtrs high and open to Sky. It is built at the hill top. The idol established here at Chousat Yogini Temple is encircling the stone wall, set in the view if circular colonnade set with scores of images of yoginis or the attendant goddess of Durga, came as a surprise. Though the statues of the Yoginis are not worshipped; visitors stepped into the central shrine dedicated to lord Shiva and his consort Parvati. The temples were constructed during the 10th Century.

Here statues are sculptured beautifully. It is a must see spot of Bhedaghat tour. One can see here Lord Shiva & Parvati together riding on Nandi ox, rarely found all together in any hindu temple. Main temple is circulated by about 95 yogini statues but unfortunately most of them are disfigured by Muslim forces in past. Here every statue is masterpiece in its own.

It was dedicated to goddess Durga. From the top of the temples you can have the beautiful view of the river Narmada flowing through the marble rocks. The temple has exquisitely carved stone figures of the 64 yoginis or attendants of the goddess Durga, belonging to Kalchuri reign. Such Yogini temples can also be seen in Khajuraho, Shahdol and even in Orissa also. Reaching Chousat Yogini temple is easy from Jabalpur city. Chousat Yogini Temple lies on the way from Bhedaghat to Dhuandhar falls or vice versa. It is open for visitors from sunrise to sunset. One can reach temple through footsteps. Their is no entrance charge for Chousat Yogini temple. A nominal charge of 25/- INR is for usage of video-camera inside temple complex. It is important part of Jabalpur sightseeing and one must visit this historical temples and appreciate the fine work of sculpture. Here photography is allowed for visitors at free of charge.