Believed to be the first among the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva, the Somnath temple is located in Prabhas Patan. It is considered to be one of the most important pilgrimages in India and a great tourist spot in Gujarat. Somnath means “Lord of the Soma”, an epithet of Shiva. The history of Somnath Temple is kind of interesting as according to legend the temple was created by the Moon God himself. The scared place of worship has braved numerous attacks (destroyed 16 times and re-built) only to remain standing strong.

How to Reach Somnath

Somnath itself doesn’t have an airport but is connected to multiple cities via the Aerodrome at Diu in the union territory Of Daman and Diu. However, there is only one flight daily operated by Air India Regional. Also, other airports are fairly close by such as the Porbandar airport which is about 120 km and the Rajkot Civil Airport, which is about 160 km away. Porbandar has flights from Mumbai as well as other cities. Rajkot is a much bigger airport which is also serviced by multiple airlines such as Air India and Jet Airways.