The Punjab, minus its mountains and deserts, is ne vast area of plain agricultural land, with any striking water features, natural forests or undulating rocky stretches to lend variety and color to its landscape. Nevertheless, the state has several tourist attractions: archaeological sites, temples, forts and pilgrim centers of religious and historical importance.
Among the places that hold great promise of development into a tourist attraction is the site of ancient Sanghol.
Ropar (renamed Rupnagar) is another archaeological site worth visiting. It has a very rest-house located on the banks of a reservoir formed by damming of the Sutelj River. Below the rest house is the place where Maharaja Ranjit Singh met Lord Bentinck, the Governor- General. Along the lake there are camping sites. It is a good place for boating and fishing. Extension of a network of new roads has opened up some of the most beautiful places in the Punjab State.
Leaving the Ropar (Sirhind) canal, one turns north into the Sutlej River valley (in March a sea mango blossoms) and then, through immense tracts of sand stonebeds, reaches Anandpur Sahib, the holy city of joy, one of the most sacred places of the Sikhs. It is 40 kilometers from Ropar.