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A national park at the end of a local train ride.
Minutes from the station is the gate of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, a forest inside the city limits. Deep in the park are the Kanheri Caves, Buddhist rock-cut halls and cells carved into the hillside.
Known for
- Sanjay Gandhi National Park
- Kanheri Caves
- Ferry to Gorai
- Global Vipassana Pagoda
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Around Borivali
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Walk
Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Over a hundred square kilometres of forest inside the city limits, with deer near the gate and leopards deeper in.
Main gate is about a kilometre from the east sideMap for Sanjay Gandhi National Park (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
See
Kanheri Caves
More than a hundred Buddhist caves cut into a basalt hill between the 1st century BCE and the 10th century CE.
Several kilometres inside the national parkMap for Kanheri Caves (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
See
Global Vipassana Pagoda
A golden pagoda with one of the world's largest stone domes built without pillars.
Rickshaw to Gorai jetty, then a short ferryMap for Global Vipassana Pagoda (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
See
Mandapeshwar Caves
A small rock-cut Shiva shrine roughly 1,500 years old, in the lanes of Borivali West.
Rickshaw ride from the stationMap for Mandapeshwar Caves (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Walk
Veer Savarkar Udyan
The suburb's big public garden, a walk from the station on the west side.
15 to 20 minute walkMap for Veer Savarkar Udyan (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
See
Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church
The church that gives I.C. Colony its name, founded by the Portuguese in the 1540s beside the Mandapeshwar Caves.
Rickshaw ride from the stationMap for Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
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