Lauriya Nandangarh

Ashokan pillars with the lion capital, and the Rampurva pair a short drive on.

North Bihar

Places around Lauriya Nandangarh

Lauria Nandangarh: It is the best-preserved standing Ashokan pillar with its capital intact, visited on the Buddhist...
Rampurva Ashokan Pillars: Visited on the Buddhist and Mauryan heritage circuit of Champaran; note that both capitals have been...
Bettiah Catholic Church: Catholics come for worship at north India's oldest Catholic foundation; notably, hundreds of...

Mutton sealed in a clay handi and cooked for hours over coals, from Champaran.

Meat marinated in mustard oil, ghee, garlic, onion and spices, sealed in an earthen pot with dough and shaken, never stirred.

A pepper-grained, fragrant rice from West Champaran, GI-registered in 2023, famous as chura.

A tall rice grown in Mainatand, Gaunaha, Narkatiaganj, Ramnagar and Chanpatia blocks, whose flattened rice carries its scent.

Buddhist Yatra: The road the Buddha walked, in the order he walked it
Mauryan and Ashokan Bihar: The capital of an empire that reached Afghanistan, and the pillars it left behind
Champaran and Gandhi: The first satyagraha in India happened in a Bihar indigo district in 1917

Valmiki Tiger Reserve: Bihar's only tiger reserve, in the forest along the Nepal border

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