Dhank Caves
Buddhist and Jain caves cut in a hill near Upleta, with Tirthankara reliefs.
- Where
- Rajkot, Gujarat, India
- Grade
- National monument
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 5 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 21.7815, 70.1242
Get the Dhank Caves stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Dhank Caves. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Gujarat volume with your photos and a note.
Near Dhank Caves
Barda Wildlife Sanctuary 45 km
Hill forest near Porbandar, protected since 1979 and a hundred kilometres west of Gir.
Navghan Kuvo 46 km
A well cut into living rock around the eleventh century, its staircase spiralling down fifty two metres.
Uparkot Fort 46 km
Two thousand years of siege, and stepwells cut into rock.
Ashoka Rock Edict 47 km
One rock, three dynasties, and the first Indian public writing.
Sudarshana Lake 48 km
An artificial lake first cut for Chandragupta Maurya and repaired by one dynasty after another since.
Girnar 51 km
Nine thousand nine hundred steps up a extinct volcano to Jain and Hindu shrines that share the summit ridge.
Kirti Mandir 56 km
The memorial beside the house in Porbandar where Mahatma Gandhi was born in 1869. The old family house still stands next to it, and the memorial tower is 79 feet tall, a foot for each year of his life.
Khodaldham 58 km
A temple to Khodal at Kagvad, opened in 2017 and built by the Leuva Patel community for their own goddess.
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Questions
Where is Dhank Caves?
Dhank Caves is in Rajkot, Gujarat. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Barda Wildlife Sanctuary (45 km), Navghan Kuvo (46 km), Uparkot Fort (46 km).
How do I get the Dhank Caves stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Dhank Caves and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Gujarat volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Dhank Caves before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Gujarat volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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