Mainpat


Mainpat is a hill station and small village in the Surguja district in the northern part of the state of Chhattisgarh, India. It lies about by road from Ambikapur. The hill station features the Tiger Point Waterfall, Fish Point Waterfall, Ghaghi waterfall, zalzali, parpatiya view point, Anmol Hotel and Resort, Shaila resort and restaurant, buddha temples and stupas, tibetan settlements, tibetan restaurant and homestays. This hill station is 50 km south of divisional headquarter of Ambikapur, 160 km northeast of Korba, and 360 km northeast of state capital Raipur.
This hill station is famous for the Ulta Pani or Bisar Paani which seems to defy the gravity and flows upward.

Overview

Mainpat is known as the "Shimla/Swiss of Chhattisgarh" and is a popular tourist attraction. It is also home to a number of Tibetan religious exiles who worship at a temple dedicated to Buddha and manufacture designer mats as well as woolen cloth.
Recently, the village has been developed infrastructure like roads & rest houses for travelers. Here one can easily find a lot of adventurous sports like Trekking, Zorbing Ball, Rapling etc. Fields are covered with yellow and white crops.
There is a place in a village called Bisar Paani where water flows upstream. Villagers have made a canal for watering and water flows upward 30 ft on its own. No device and no scientific explanation could be found.

History

The village was traditionally home to the Yadavs and tribes including the Manjhi.

Gravity hill

Ulta Pani, also called Bisar Paani, is the place on this hill which is a gravity hill where due to the optical illusion the water seems to defy the gravity and seems flows from bottom to uphill.