Tourism
The biggest tourist attraction in Munger is Bihar School of Yoga, attended by people from various countries.
People from various nearby place come to various Ganges ghats on religious occasions. The city also see huge crowd during Durga Puja festival.
Kastaharni Ghat is one of various bathing ghats on the Ganges and religiously the most significant. This is one of the few places where the Ganges meanders and flows in the northern direction (Uttarvahini Ganges). Because of this it is considered very auspicious by Hindu believers.
Chandika Asthan is one of the sixty-four shakti peeths spread across India and is situated on the north-east corner of Munger. It sees a huge crowd of devotees all round the year and specially during Navratras.
Munger has one of the oldest railway manufacturing units and also the ITC Tobacco factory.
Earlier spelled Monghyr and now Munger it has a rich and glorious past and stories abound. Madarsa Rahmania is the largest Islamic School in the state.
Bhimbandh and Kharagpur Lake are great picnic spot. It has a stream of hot water coming from the mountains nearby and one stream of cold water also, both the streams merge here only and then are later joined in ganges river.
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“In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.”
—Robert Runcie (b. 1921)