Parnera hill is situated slightly far from proper valsad and it is also place where many people visit. Parnera hill is famous because of the historical temples. It have the temple of lord Shiva and goddess Ambica,Chandica, Navdurga and goddess Kalika. On the peak of parnera hill beside hindu temples there is one "PIR" also,which is said to be "Chand Pir Bawa". Parnera hill have great history attached with it.
Above shown picture is of the main entrance of the Parnera hill. Many people come to climb this hill and pray to the mighty god and goddess.
Parnera have 486 stairs.Many local people daily early in the morning climb up and pray to god. Above picture shows the stairs of the hill and a historical temple. It is said that when Maharaja Chattrapati Shivaji was on this hill goddess Ambica,Navdurga and Chandika had given the way to maharaja shivaji in the form of statue. so we can suppose that this temple is how much older. No doubt the new construction took place around the statue. The constuction work was started in the year 2001 and completed in 2008.
Maharaja Shivaji had made a small fort on the parnera hill to fight against enimies.The fort exist there now a days also. There is a "WOW"(called in gujarati) in the fort which were filled with water and crocodile at the time of maharaja shijavi. And it is said that there is a way through that "WOW" which ends at " ".Fort was built in such a way that the army of maharaja shivaji can be protected against the enimies and they can attack to there enimies.
Picture shown above on right side is of "WOW" and on left is of the wall of the fort.The hole in the wall is constructed in such a way that an army man can put weapon inside it and attack on the animies.There are almost five "WOWS" on the hill.
When the army of maharaja shivaji was finished and at that shivaji realised that he should run away from here and he made a very-very long jump sitting on his horse called "Badal".Picture Shown below is the place where maharaja shivaji had jumped along with his horse and ran away.
Along with the history of Maharaja Shivaji there is one more history attached with parnera hill.On the hill there is a pir of "Chand Pir Bawa".Here is a chest of the pir bawa and it is said that the finger is at Pardi and Head is at Bagwada. Both places are 15 to 20 km away from valsad.