Mainpat

Mainpat is known as the "Shimla/Swiss of Chhattisgarh" and is a popular tourist attraction. It is also home to a number of Tibetan religious exiles who worship at a temple dedicated to Buddha and manufacture designer mats as well as woolen cloth.{{Cite web | url = http://cg.nic.in/surguja/Tourist_places.htm | title = Tourism | publisher = Surguja District Government | accessdate = 14 April 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140914160920/http://cg.nic.in/surguja//Tourist_places.htm | archive-date = 14 September 2014 | url-status = dead }}

Recently, the village has developed infrastructure like roads and rest houses for travelers. Here one can easily find a lot of adventurous sports like Trekking, Zorbing Ball, Rapling, etc. Fields are covered with yellow and white crops.{{fact|date=January 2019}}

There is a place in a village called Bisar Paani (5 KM before Mainpat on right side of road going from Ambikapur to Mainpat) where water flows upstream. Villagers have made a canal for watering and water flows upward 30 ft on its own. No device and no scientific explanation could be found.{{fact|date=January 2019}} The hill station features the Tiger Point Waterfall, Fish Point Waterfall, Ghaghi waterfall, Zalzali(bouncing land), Parpatiya view point and Buddha temples.

In 1962-63, a lot of Tibetans migrated to India. The government of India allotted them land at Mainpat hill. The Home Ministry gave 3,000 acres of land to about 1,400 Tibetan immigrants.{{Cite web|last=Goyal|first=Anuradha|date=2012-06-01|title=A Bit Of Tibet In Chhattisgarh State At Mainpat Hill|url=https://www.inditales.com/tibet-chhattisgarh-mainpat/|access-date=2020-10-15|website=Inditales|language=en-US}} The village has traditionally been home to the Yadavs and tribes including the Manjhi.{{cite web | url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/raipur/chhattisgarh-plans-mainpat-carnival.html | title=Chhattisgarh plans Mainpat Carnival | publisher=Daily Pioneer | date=25 December 2013 | accessdate=14 April 2014}}

{{ anchor | Ulta Pani | Bisar Paani }}

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Ulta Pani, also called Bisar Paani, is the place on this hill which is a gravity hill where due to the optical illusion the water seems to defy the gravity and seems to flow from bottom to uphill.{{cite web|url=https://www.patrika.com/ambikapur-news/you-will-shocked-in-cgs-shimla-heres-stream-flows-reverse-see-video-1-2165976/|title=Chhattisgarh facts: छत्तीसगढ़ का शिमला कर देगा हैरान, यहां चढ़ाई की ओर बहती है धारा, नाम है उल्टापानी- देखें Video|website=www.patrika.com|date=30 December 2017 }}[http://abc.action.news/watch?v=DWbeywjx13A ultapani], newsreport.

Nearest bus stand is Ambikapur Bus Terminal from where tourist vehicles can be booked

Nearest Railway station is Ambikapur Railway station

Nearest Airport is Ambikapur Airport which is currently under development after which Ambikapur Airport is poised to get Air connectivity to Raipur & Varanasi

• Tourism in Chhattisgarh

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