Tapkeshwari Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to goddess Tapkeshwari situated in a valley surrounded by the hills.
This small cache is situated on a ridge that overlooks Tapkeshwari Temple on one side and the city of Bhuj on the other. The Temple is easily accessed by road with parking available, but finding the cache requires some degree of rock scrambling. This should not be a problem for a healthy adult, but it is not for the faint of heart! Travelling to Tapkeshwari Temple, your journey will first begin in Bhuj, a town of 150,000 in the state of Gujarat and district of Kutch. Bhuj was founded in 1510 and is overlooked by Bujia Fort, a stone structure built on a nearby hill in the 1700s to defend the village from invaders The temple is situated at the end of Tapkeshwari Road, which originates at the south side of Bhuj. To the west of the road is the small village of Haripar, and to the east is a compound for the border security force of Kutch, whose task is to guard the border of Pakistan. The name of the temple comes from the Gujarati word "tapakvu," which means "to drop." Spoken history states that this used to be the site of a year-round spring, causing water to "drop" down the cliff walls. No spring is present today. To find the cache, first take the Tapkeshwari Road to its terminus. You can take car, rickshaw, bicycle or walk if you bring enough water. When you come to the fork in the road, be sure you go to the right (west). At the end of the road is the temple. From there you must climb the stairs on the north side of the temple and follow the rough trail to the top of the overlying ridge. .