Places to visit near Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad is one of the most popular cities in India. Its popularity is mainly due to lots of textile mills and industries within and around the city. Due to a large number of textile mills for a few decades, Ahmedabad is also known as Manchester of India. 

Despite Ahmedabad being the business hub of Gujarat, lots of heritage monuments can also be seen within the city. Considering these historic monuments, Ahmedabad is recently declared as World Heritage City.

Ahmedabad is geographically positioned in the centre of Gujarat and is surrounded by various historic and natural sceneries. The Eastern region has Pavagarh hills, the Western region has a white desert, the Northern region has dense Polo forest whereas the Southern region has Khambhat seashore.

Several picnic spots like Adalaj vav, Akshardham and Mahatma mandir are located within a very short vicinity from Ahmedabad. 

Lots of tourist places are located near Ahmedabad, so it is best to explore by planning short trips within 50 to 500 km. Popular picnic spots are comprised here based on routes.

Ahmedabad - Dharoi dam route (Total distance of 167 km to cover all places):
- Swapna Shrushti Water Park - 50 km
- Amarnath Dham – Cave temples - 50 km
- Mahudi - 66 km
- Tirupati Rushivan - 74 km
- Sapteshwar - 90 km
- Taranga Hills - 128 km
- Dharoi dam - 138 km
- Derol Jain temple - 149 km

Mehsana - Patan - Siddhpur route (Total distance of 170 km to cover all places):
- Shanku’s Water Park - 60 km
- Modhera Sun Temple - 99 km
- Patan Rani ki Vav - 127 km
- Sahastra Ling Talav
- Siddhpur - 161 km
- Bindu Sarovar
- Bohra Havelis
- Rudra Mahalaya

Viramgam - Patdi - Dasada - Shankheshwar route:
- Thol Bird Sanctuary
- Bajana
- Patdi - Kharaghoda
- Zainabad
- Shankheshwar

Nalsarovar route:
- Maniar’s Snow World
- Splash Water park
- Kensville
- Nalsafari Resort
- Nalsarovar Lake

Palitana route:
- Ganpatipura
- Lothal site and museum - 80 km
- Velavadar Blackbuck National Park
- Palitana - 215 km

Pariyej - Khambhat route:
- Pariyej Road and Lake
- Kanvel Lake
- Khambhat Chowpati
- Khambhat Sikotar Mata Temple at sea
- Dhuvaran - Mahisagar Temple

Baroda route:
- Ajwa dam
- Pavagadh hill
- Champaner
- Poicha
- Hathnimata Waterfall
- Jambughoda
- Sardar Sarovar dam
- Kabirwad
- Statue of Unity

Dakor route:
- Siddhivinayak Mandir - Mahemdabad
- Dakor Temple
- Galteshwar Mahadev
- Balasinor Fossil Park
- Wanakbori Dam

Rajendranagar hill station - Shamlaji route:
- Rajendranagar Hill Station
- Shamlaji Temple
- Meshwo dam

Polo Forest route:
- Idariyo gadh
- Guhai dam
- Polo forest
- Ambaji

Gir - Somnath route (Total distance of 500 km to cover all places):

- Chotila - 170 km
- Girnar - 320 km

- Junagadh haveli - 340 km

- Devalia Safari Park - 374 km

- Gir National Park - 410 km

- Somnath - 415 km

- Diu - 353 km

Various taxi services like AmdavadCitySights, BharatTaxi and AhmedabadTaxi can assist to plan for the picnic.

Reliance Jio launches websites for JioCinema and JioTV

Reliance Jio has created a digital revolution in India after the launch of a free unlimited 4G network. This attracted users to surf videos from their mobile on-the-go.

Mobile internet users increased ten folds in just a few months along with the sharp rise in sales of 4G mobile handsets. This is taken the media and entertainment industry to new heights.

Reliance Jio provided a bunch of entertainment apps within the MyJio bundle. JioTV and JioCinema are the two most popular video streaming apps. As these apps are mobile-centric, and so users were restricted to mobile and couldn't access them on bigger screens. The only alternative to this was to emulate the mobile device on the computer, but it is too technical oriented and not easy for non-technical users. So bingo to Jio users to know that the web version of these apps is now available !!!

Reliance Jio made these web versions available silently without much marketing and so users are still not aware of this provision.

Click here to open the web version of JioCinema
Click here to open the web version of JioTV

To use these websites, you have to log in with your valid Jio ID and password. The interface of these websites is identical to the apps. These websites can be accessed using WiFi or any other network. So now with your mobile hotspot, you can not just access the internet on a bigger screen but also connect to the web version of JioTV and JioCinema.

The mysterious Voynich manuscript

Voynich manuscript is one of the mysterious manuscripts that is not yet decoded. The writer of this book and its purpose is still a mystery, and so as expected there are many theories woven around this. Various assumptions for the purpose of this book include:

• Early discoveries and inventions by the 13th century written in encrypted form.
• Nonsense wrote by a medieval quack, to impress leaders.
• A rare prayer book not destroyed by the inquisition, written in the ancient script not known.
• Meaningless strings of characters cleverly composed for monetary gain.

This book is preserved in Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Carbon dating determines its existence came in the 13th century.

Dozens of medievalists and cryptologists are studying this book every year but are not yet able to decipher it. It is also believed that the content of this book was ciphered by retouching text and drawings.

The content of this book consists of scripts with the illustration of plants, stars, female expressions and chemical secrets. Though the content of this book is well organized, the annoying point is that this 234 pages book has an empty cover i.e. neither author name nor the book title.

Encoding of this script is done to some extent and it is believed that below alphabetic format is used:

The whole book is available in digital form and can be explored here. This is one of the sample pages of this book:

Buy your new domain from Google

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This service not only helps in searching new website name, but also creates a site for us in few steps along with customized email with G Suite security. And best part is that all these packages are bundled with your Google login account.

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Click here if Google Domain service is available in your country

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Governance versus Management

• Governance is concerned with decision making (i. e. setting directions, establishing standards and principles, and prioritizing investments).
• Management is concerned with execution (i. e. how the actions resulting from decisions are executed).

Alchemy - Sacred Secrets Revealed

Alchemy is an ancient philosophy full of secret and mystery that flourished in Europe, Asia and Africa. The practioners of alchemy were believed to have power to convert any metal into gold.

The knowledge of alchemy was not just limited to scientific intentions but was also used in religious traditions. Though it is not clear whether the alchemy practioners used their skills to purify human souls or just convert lead into precious gold. But this ancient tradition played a vital role in fostering inventions in the field of chemistry and medicine.

In this video we can take an in-depth look at this most Sacred Science, what are some of the myths, and how it relates to consciousness and spirituality. This video focus primarily on the spiritual aspects of Alchemy:

Secrets of Archimedes (a great mathematician and founder of Pi)

Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Among his advances in physics are the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and an explanation of the principle of the lever. He is credited with designing innovative machines, including siege engines and the screw pump that bears his name. Modern experiments have tested claims that Archimedes designed machines capable of lifting attacking ships out of the water and setting ships on fire using an array of mirrors.

Archimedes is generally considered to be the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time. He used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under the arc of a parabola with the summation of an infinite series and gave a remarkably accurate approximation of pi. He also defined the spiral bearing his name, formulae for the volumes of surfaces of revolution and an ingenious system for expressing very large numbers.

Archimedes died during the Siege of Syracuse when he was killed by a Roman soldier despite orders that he should not be harmed. Cicero describes visiting the tomb of Archimedes, which was surmounted by a sphere inscribed within a cylinder. Archimedes had proven that the sphere has two-thirds of the volume and surface area of the cylinder (including the bases of the latter), and regarded this as the greatest of his mathematical achievements.

Unlike his inventions, the mathematical writings of Archimedes were little known in antiquity. Mathematicians from Alexandria read and quoted him, but the first comprehensive compilation was not made until c. 530 AD by Isidore of Miletus, while commentaries on the works of Archimedes written by Eutocius in the sixth century AD opened them to wider readership for the first time. The relatively few copies of Archimedes' written work that survived through the Middle Ages were an influential source of ideas for scientists during the Renaissance, while the discovery in 1906 of previously unknown works by Archimedes in the Archimedes Palimpsest has provided new insights into how he obtained mathematical results.