Things to do in India

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Viewpoint

3 Idiots Point

Pangong Tso, Leh & Ladakh

A stretch of shore with a signboard, a scooter and a chair set out for photographs, because a film ended here in 2009. There is a charge. The lake is the same lake a kilometre in either direction, with nobody on it.

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Abbey Falls

Coorg (Madikeri), Karnataka

About seventy feet, dropping through a private coffee estate and seen from a suspension bridge rather than from the base. Full in the monsoon and a trickle by March.

Attraction

Adalaj Stepwell

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

An exquisitely carved five-storey stepwell on the city's outskirts.

Attraction

Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra

Ajmer Sharif Dargah, Rajasthan

Commissioned by Qutb-ud-Din Aibak in 1192 and finished by 1199, with a screen of arches added by Iltutmish in 1213 — which makes it one of the oldest surviving mosques in India and the oldest standing building in Ajmer. The name means "shed of two and a half days". Hindu masons built most of it under Afghan supervision, and it shows: the pillars are Indian work, reused and recut, no two quite alike. It stopped being used as a mosque in 1947 and is a protected monument now, a short climb above the dargah. Usually quiet, even when the dargah below is not.

Viewpoint

Adi Ganga Canal Front

Kalighat Kali Temple, West Bengal

The historic old riverbed channel steps located adjacent to the temple, tracking centuries of ritual bathing traditions.

Attraction

Adinath Temple

Shatrunjaya Hill, Gujarat

The grandest and most sacred primary temple inside the summit enclave, dedicated to the first Jain Tirthankara. It features detailed white marble pillars, friezes, and a jewel-encrusted deity image.

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Aga Khan Palace

Pune, Maharashtra

A grand palace and Gandhi national memorial set in gardens.

Viewpoint

Agaratoli (Eastern) Range

Kaziranga National Park, Assam

A quiet deciduous forest corridor flanking water lagoons, famous for spotting otters, storks, and rare nesting migratory eagles.

Experience

Agatti Lagoon

Agatti Island, Lakshadweep

A shallow turquoise lagoon for snorkelling and kayaking.

Attraction

Agra Fort

Agra, Uttar Pradesh

A massive red-sandstone Mughal fort and UNESCO site overlooking the Yamuna.

Attraction

Aina Mahal

Bhuj, Gujarat

The palace of mirrors, built around 1750 for Rao Lakhpatji of Kutch. His master craftsman Ram Singh Malam had trained abroad and came back to build in the local idiom but finish it in glass, mirror and tile — the Hall of Mirrors, the Pleasure Hall and the state apartments on the first floor, the durbar and marriage halls above. It is a museum now, and the oddest thing in it is the Europeanerie collection Lakhpatji accumulated: clocks, wares, mechanical toys and European paintings, all shipped into a desert court. It stands beside Prag Mahal in the Darbargadh.

Attraction

Ajitnath Jain Temple

Taranga Hills, Gujarat

Built around 1161 under the Solanki king Kumarpal and roughly a hundred and forty feet high, in local sandstone. The Ajitnath inside is cut from one block, a little over five metres. Taranga is a quiet hill and this is close to the only thing on it.

Attraction

Akshardham Temple Complex

Gandhinagar, Gujarat

A BAPS Swaminarayan temple complex of twenty-three acres, conceived by Yogiji Maharaj and built under Pramukh Swami Maharaj over thirteen years. The mandir at its centre uses six thousand tonnes of pink sandstone brought from Rajasthan. Akshardham is the abode of Swaminarayan, where followers hold the soul goes after liberation, which is what the complex is named for. On 24 September 2002 two Lashkar-e-Taiba gunmen attacked it and killed thirty-three worshippers; security has been heavy ever since, and phones, bags and cameras do not go past the gate.

Attraction

Alha-Udal Akhada Ruins

Maa Sharda Mandir (Maihar), Madhya Pradesh

The historic stone monuments located behind the hill, traditionally linked to the martial training loops of the legendary warrior brothers.

Experience

Alipiri Srivari Mettu Path

Tirupati (Tirumala), Andhra Pradesh

The historic, covered mountain steps trail leading up the hills, climbed bare-foot by millions of pilgrims to complete vows.

Attraction

Allahabad Fort

Prayagraj (Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh

A riverside Mughal fort built by Akbar at the Sangam.

Attraction

Amaravati Stupa

Amararama (Amaravati), Andhra Pradesh

The ruins and museum of a great ancient Buddhist stupa nearby.

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Amareswara Temple

Amararama (Amaravati), Andhra Pradesh

The principal Pancharama Shiva temple on the Krishna River.

Attraction

Amber Fort

Jaipur, Rajasthan

Begun in 1592 on the hill above Maota lake, in pale sandstone and marble, and the Sheesh Mahal is what the queue is for. The fort stands over the town of Amer, eleven kilometres from Jaipur, and Maota is not scenery — it was the palace's water supply. Ramparts, a sequence of gates and cobbled ramps carry you up through the courtyards, with the mirror hall off the third. Walk up rather than taking an elephant: the animals here have drawn repeated welfare complaints, and the climb takes about ten minutes. First hour or last hour is when the sandstone turns orange and the courtyards empty.