Khavda
Khavda is a small handicrafts town located in Kutch district of Gujarat at just 70KM from Bhuj. It is a home to excellent potters and leather craftsmen and is also an ideal location to visit the Great Rann of Kutch and Kalo Dungar Hills.
The village community is proud of its skilled leather and potters. Under the direction of local women, the village also markets embroidered handmade dolls and other textile goods. For generations craftmen have been making earthen pots with the same process and designs as those seen in the Indus valley excavations. The present-day skilled craftsmen lives in the rim of Runn of kutch whose forefathers migrated here from Sindh a few hundred years ago. The greatest flamingo colony leaves from Khavda as well since every year, some 500,000 flamingos stop there while migrating.
The highest peak in Kutch (462 m), Kalo Dungar (Black Hill), is located north of the settlement of Khavda and offers breathtaking views over the Great Rann salt flat). To visit, you'll require your own transportation. The hill is also well-known for housing a Lord Dattatreya shrine that dates back 400 years. As the day wears on and the sun sets behind the mountains, you make your way to the hill's edge and look out over the vast, colourless countryside.
- Bhuj airport
- Bhuj Railway station