Temburgartha Dam
Ten kilometres south of Ahwa, a small dam with evening water views, and a ridge beside it that doubles as the local sunset point and the local phone signal.
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- Best months
- Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan
- Time needed
- ~1.5 hr
- Entry
- Free
- Hours
- Open area
- Effort
- Easy
South of Ahwa, a small irrigation dam whose reservoir gives the forest country a rare open horizon. Temburgartha is the town's water-and-sunset outing. Locals drive out for the evening: the adjoining ridge is pinned on the map, with pleasing honesty, as 'Sunset point. Net point.': the spot where the view opens up and, just as usefully, where phone signal returns in a belt that mostly has none.
It is a picnic-and-pause place rather than a sight, banks, water, hills, chai from a flask, and it pairs with Kunda waterfall on the same side of town for Ahwa's easy half-day. The usual dam courtesies apply: viewpoints and banks are the visit, not the structure.
A village homestay, Vanvihar, sits a kilometre north, currently the only bed in this pocket of the district.
Highlights
- ◆Open reservoir horizon in closed forest country
- ◆The local sunset point, and the belt's phone-signal spot
- ◆Pairs with Kunda falls for Ahwa's easy half-day
Traveller tips
- →Kunda falls in the afternoon, the dam ridge for sunset, Ahwa's easy double
- →Vanvihar stay home, a kilometre north, is the pocket's only homestay if you want to wake up here
- →The ridge is where your phone comes back to life, locals call it the net point for a reason
Safety
- ⚠No swimming: reservoir depths and slopes are treacherous
- ⚠The ridge edge is unfenced; mind children at sunset
Where it is
Approximate pin. The circle is the margin · 20.7031, 73.7164
Directions to Temburgartha ↗Getting there
Road · South from Ahwa on the Temburgartha village road
Rail · Waghai (heritage narrow gauge); Bilimora Jn for broad gauge
Air · Surat (~145 km)
Last stretch · Short walks from the roadside to the banks and the sunset ridge
Practical detail
- The road
- Rural tar; fine year-round
- Parking
- Informal roadside
- Season
- Fullest just after the rains; low and hazy by late spring.
- Visiting
- Respect any barriers near the dam structure. The banks and ridge are the visit.
- Photography
- Sunset over the water from the ridge; winter mornings bring waterbirds to the shallows.
- Food
- None. Carry from Ahwa
- Toilets
- none
- Guides
- Not needed
Where to sleep
Devinamal Eco Campsite, Ahwa
The Forest Department's own bed nearest to Ahwa, 7 km out on the Saputara road and 3 km off it, ringed by forest above the Khapri. Cheapest roofed night in interior Dang, and the closest thing to a base for the Ahwa-side waterfalls.
Forest Department portal lists cottage rooms from ₹800 and wooden rooms from ₹2000 a night; run by the local Eco Tourism Committee, so meals are arranged rather than ordered.
Vanvihar Stay Home
The only bed in the Temburgartha–Wasurna pocket. Stay here to catch the dam's sunset ridge and the south-western falls circuit without the drive back to Ahwa.
A village stay home by the Temburgartha dam pocket south of Ahwa, mapped but not listed on any booking platform. Ask locally or via Ahwa contacts, and confirm before building an overnight around it
Pravasi Gruh, Ahwa
A named bed in Ahwa town rather than the anonymous 'various lodges'. Useful when an interior-Dang day runs late and Saputara is an hour of ghat road away.
Phone ahead. Rooms and meals are both arranged on the call rather than online. Numbers come from a traveller writeup, not an official listing, so confirm before you rely on it.
Ahwa & Waghai Basic Hotels (various)
Function over charm. These towns are the practical overnights for waterfall-circuit and Ramayana-trail days that outgrow a Saputara base.
Simple lodges and guesthouses in both towns; walk-in or phone booking. Ahwa's matter for interior-circuit overnights, Waghai's for early ghat starts. Named alternatives now have their own records: see Pravasi Gruh in Ahwa and the government circuit house below.
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