Interesting Facts and Travel Guide of Valley of Flower, Statue of Unity, Kevadia, Narmada, Gujarat, India
Valley of Flowers is one of the key attraction along with the Statue of Unity, world’s tallest statue and Sardar Sarovar Dam near Kevadia Colony in Narmada district of Gujarat, India. It is also well known as Bharat Van and spread across 600 acers of land beside the statue of Shri Sardar Vallabhabhai Patel. . The valley of flowers is a long passage of 17 km along with bank of sacred River Narmada where more than 300 types of flower and around 22,00,000 plants welcomes the guest to Statue of Unity. Flowers, trees, shrubs, herbs, climbers and creepers are planted in such a way they forms the green cover in surrounding area. These colourful flowers are placed in such a way that it looks life rainbow on earth. Besides the parks, there are several photo booths and selfie points developed to capture the memories of your visit to Statue of Unity. To maintain the flower in effective way, drip irrigation system has been developed for all flower species. Also there are two small beautiful lake named Kamal and Poyani.
How to reach Valley of Flower, Statue of Unity, Kevadia, Narmada, Gujarat, India
As Kevadia is now holds high significance across the world for its world’s tallest statue of Shri Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Statue of Unity, thus very well connected to all major cities of India via Air, Road and Rail Network. You can reach to Kevadia via Vadodara which is major junction lies on Mumbai Delhi Western mainline. Also Vadodara airport is nearest airline from Kevadia at 90 km from where you can get flight to all major cities of India. Also Kevadia has now newly built railway station which is India’s first railway station with green certificate. Now Indian railway has planned several trains from major cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Varanasi, Ahmedabad etc. to reach Kevadia directly which helps in increase footfall of tourist. Kevadia has major bus stop and newly built highway which gives high level comfort to tourist. You can also get autos from Kevadia to Statue of Unity and Sardar Sarovar Dam.
Apart from Vadodara you can also easily visit the Statue of Unity from Ahmedabad or Surat, with both cities having railway stations, airports, and being within 2-4 hours driving distance from the Statue of Unity. Also there are lots of private bus service provider operate bus to Kevadia along with day package from Surat, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Vadodara etc. Also, you can hire private cab from Ahmedabad, Surat or Vadodara to reach Kevadia.
Kevadia is located at 25 km from the Rajpipla, 90 km from Vadodara, 150 km from Surat, and 200 km from Ahmedabad, 40 km from Poicha, 50 km from Chandod, 52 km from Dabhoi, 10 km from Garudeshwar.
