Nasik Sightseeing

Sita Gupta Cave from which, according to the Ramayana, Sita, the deity of agriculture and wife of Rama , was supposed to have been carried off to the island of Lanka by the evil king Ravana. Near the cave, in a grove of large banyan trees, is the fine house of the Panchavati family.

 The largest and simplest of the temples is Kalaram Mandir, built in 1790 by Sardar Odhekar of Peshwa. There are great processions and utsav on Ramnavami, Dasara and Chaitra Padwa. It houses a black stone image of Rama, hence the name. The temple is made by complete black stones, which has four doors facing East, West, South and North.

Kapaleshwar Temple upstream is said to be the oldest in the town.

The Kumbh Mela, purportedly the largest celebration of any kind on earth, alternates between Nasik, Allahabad, Ujjain and Haridwar every three years. Kumbh means 'pot' or 'cup' and in Hindu mythology, four drops of the nectar of immortality fell to earth, one in each of these places.