Visit the Industrial and Historical City of Kanpur in India

The State of Uttar Pradesh in India is full of the most scenic cities that are located on the shore of the holy River Ganga. Kanpur is one such big city that attracts many visitors on business trips as well as for the sites seeing purpose. Kanpur has 1040 square Kilometers area in all and has around three and a half million people. It has lot of historical importance also as the mutiny of the year 1857 for the Indian freedom was started here at Kanpur. The city of Kanpur is famous for the leather and cloth industries and the plastic industries. There are many sugar factories also located near the city of Kanpur.

Kanpur is well connected by air, rail, and road from all the major cities of Uttar Pradesh. The Chakeri airport of Kanpur is made operative since the year 1996. Kanpur is also a big railway station on Delhi-Dehradun railway line. There are regular buses plying from all the major cities of Uttar Pradesh for this industrial city of Kanpur, situated on National Highway 2 and 25. Kanpur is situated 48 miles away from Luckhnow, 170 miles from Agra, and 132 miles from Jhansi. Kanpur is having many sites seeing places. Radha Krishna temple is the most famous place at Kanpur to be visited. This temple has an ideal mixture of ancient and modern architecture. It has five most beautiful statues of Lord Krishna with Radha. These statues are made of black smooth stone and look really gorgeous. The glass temple of the Jains is the next place to be seen. This complete Jain temple is made of glass and enamel and has extraordinary designs, which are simply out of this world. The designs are made and arranged in such a way that the multiple images of all the decorations can be viewed by standing at one place in the temple. The boating in the River Ganga in the evening hours at the River shore of Kanpur is the most pleasant experience of our life.