Rohtak

Rohtak sits roughly 70 km northwest of Delhi in the Jat heartland of central Haryana and falls within the National Capital Region, which makes it an unhurried day-trip rather than a marquee tourist stop.

• Its most popular outing is Tilyar Lake, a 132-acre state-run lakeside park on the city's northern edge with boating, landscaped gardens and a compact mini-zoo (Rohtak Zoo) — an easy family half-day.
• On the eastern outskirts, along the old Delhi road, the Asthal Bohar math is a centuries-old Nath-sampradaya monastery associated with Baba Mastnath, today the seat of Baba Mastnath University and a living centre of the yogi tradition.
• The city is also a regional education and medical hub, home to Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) and the large PGIMS medical institute, alongside civic green spaces and bazaars that give a taste of small-city Haryana.
• Like much of the Jat belt, Rohtak's everyday food culture is mixed rather than vegetarian by default, so vegetarian travellers should choose clearly pure-veg halwais, mithai shops and bhojnalayas; the town's traditional sweet houses are a reliable bet, and the famous pure-veg Murthal dhabas (Amrik Sukhdev and Pahalwan Veg) lie about 40 km east on the Sonipat–Delhi highway (NH-44).
• Best visited October to March, when the plains are cool; note that Rohtak shares the wider Delhi belt's poor winter air on cold November-to-January mornings, so check the day's readings if you are sensitive.
• Reach it by train to Rohtak Junction or by road via NH-9 / the Rohtak bypass; there is no metro to Rohtak.