Places near Gurgaon

Gurgaon has emerged as a favorite destination in Northern India in the last decade as a land of opportunities in IT/ITES & BPO services. As a result, many people like to shift their base to the fast growing city for employment purpose. However, they do get a chance to have fun and entertainment as the city and its surrounding places offer plenty of options for sight-seeing and amusing activities.

Places around Gurgaon include: Tehsil Sohna, Tehsil Nuh, Tehsil Pataudi, Tehsil Ferozpur Jhirka and Sub-Tehsil Farukhnagar. These places have historic significance wherein the ruins of the old forts and palaces, Muslim and Rajput architecture, parks, lakes, etc. attract a large number of local tourists as well as people from nearby cities.

Tehsil Sohna situated on the highway from Gurgaon to Alwar has occupancy of races like the Kambhos, the Khanzadas and the Rajputs, whose traces can be seen still in the ruins. It is popular for its hot springs that are known to have medicinal value.

Tehsil Nuh is located in the south of Gurgaon that is on the Delhi-Alwar road which is famous for its excellently crafted masonry tank built up of red sandstone and a chhatri. Tehsil Pataudi was found by a Mewati Chieftain of Jalal-ud-Din Khilji, Pata. The place named Pataudi, was made a pargana and was also attached to Rewari. Later, it was given as Jagir to Faiz Talab Khan. The Tehsil now has remarkable buildings like: the palace of the Nawab of Pataudi, a temple of Mahadeva at Inchapuri and Ashram Hari Mandir Sanskrit Vidyalaya that attracts a large number of tourists every year.

Besides this, the Tehsil Ferozpur Jhirka founded by Firoz Shah Tughluq is now visited by tourists for its ruins and the Jhirka that is the perennial stream and the sub-Tehsil Farukhnagar which is octagonal in shape is popular among the masses for its Jami Masjid which is built by Faujdar Khan.