Tal Chhapar Sanctuary
A flat saline grassland where blackbuck run in hundreds and harriers roost through the winter.
- Where
- Chhapar, Rajasthan, India
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 27.7981, 74.4349
Get the Tal Chhapar Sanctuary stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Tal Chhapar Sanctuary. 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 Rajasthan volume with your photos and a note.
Near Tal Chhapar Sanctuary
Fatehpur Shekhawati 57 km
Frescoes a French artist spent her life restoring.
Mandawa 76 km
Painted havelis on every street in the Shekhawati.
Harshnath Temple 80 km
A tenth century Shiva temple on a hill near Sikar, broken up by Aurangzeb's men and still worth the climb.
Nawalgarh Painted Havelis 82 km
Merchant houses frescoed inside and out in the nineteenth century, a whole town of them slowly fading.
Nagaur 96 km
A twelfth-century fort in the middle of the Thar, restored room by room, and a cattle fair every February that fills the sand for miles.
Khatushyamji 107 km
A Shyam temple in Sikar that draws lakhs in Phalgun, the deity being Barbarika of the Mahabharata.
Karni Mata Temple 112 km
Twenty thousand rats, and one white one to find.
Junagarh Fort 112 km
Built on flat ground rather than a hill and never taken anyway, its interiors lacquered and gilded room by room.
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Questions
Where is Tal Chhapar Sanctuary?
Tal Chhapar Sanctuary is in Chhapar, Rajasthan. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Fatehpur Shekhawati (57 km), Mandawa (76 km), Harshnath Temple (80 km).
How do I get the Tal Chhapar Sanctuary stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Tal Chhapar Sanctuary and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Rajasthan volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Tal Chhapar Sanctuary before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Rajasthan volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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