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Experience
Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu
Workshops weaving the city's world-famous silk sarees.
Attraction
Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh
The largest temple at Khajuraho, built around 1030 and thirty-one metres high, with close to nine hundred carvings on it. Only a small fraction are erotic, which surprises most first-time visitors.
Imphal, Manipur
The historic seat of Manipur's former kingdom in the city centre.
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
The golden-spired Jyotirlinga temple of Shiva. The approach to it has recently been rebuilt as a wide, barrier-free pedestrian corridor.
One of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva, at the heart of the new corridor.
Viewpoint
Kaup (Kapu) Beach, Karnataka
A century-old lighthouse with sunset views over the coast.
Mussoorie, Uttarakhand
Fifteen kilometres out, and the most crowded thing in the district — the fall now sits inside a ring of ropeways, stalls and concrete steps. Come very early or skip it.
Porbandar, Gujarat
The house where Gandhi was born in 1869, and the small museum built beside it for him and Kasturba. Inside are objects he used, life-size portraits of the two of them, old photographs and a library of his writing and of books about his thinking. The ancestral home itself is entered through the museum — narrow rooms, steep stairs, and a marked spot on the floor. It is modest by design, and the contrast with the Statue of Unity three hours away is worth sitting with. World leaders have made the trip; most visitors need about half an hour.
Kohima, Nagaland
The venue of the Hornbill Festival, showcasing Naga tribal life.
Some fourteen hundred graves on the slope where the Japanese advance into India was halted in 1944. The white lines of the tennis court the fighting is named for are still marked out on the terrace. The epitaph at the foot of the cross is what people come to read.
Alibaug Beaches, Maharashtra
A coastal fort reachable on foot at low tide off Alibaug beach.
Chandrabhaga Beach (Konark), Odisha
The beach famed for the international sand-art festival.
Mathura & Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
The temple complex at the believed birthplace of Lord Krishna in Mathura.
Market
Thekkady (Periyar), Kerala
A street of spice shops at the Tamil Nadu border, where quality varies enormously. Buy cardamom by smell rather than by label, and be sceptical of anything sold cheaply as vanilla or saffron.
Hyderabad (Charminar & Golconda), Telangana
The historic old city bazaar alley flanking the Charminar, world-famed for authentic hand-crafted stone lacquer bangles and local pearls.
Udaipur, Rajasthan
Artificial, dammed in 1362 and named after the village of Picholi — one of a chain of lakes built around Udaipur to hold drinking and irrigation water, not for the view they are now famous for. Four islands sit in it, among them Jag Niwas, which carries the Lake Palace, and Jag Mandir. Boats leave from inside the City Palace and the sunset run is the one people book. In bad drought years this lake has emptied completely, so check the water level before you plan a trip around it.
Jamnagar, Gujarat
A semicircular fort on an island in Ranmal lake, built in the nineteenth century as famine relief so that people had wages. It is a museum now — Saurashtra pottery, an old armoury — reached by a stone causeway.
An exceptionally preserved 10th-century temple featuring unique stone reliefs detailing medieval military marches and domestic life scenes.
The highest point in Mussoorie, up in Landour, five kilometres from the Mall. A telescope on a platform, and on a clear morning a line of peaks. Afternoon haze usually closes it down.
Bengaluru (Bangalore), Karnataka
A historic 240-acre garden with a glasshouse and rare trees.
Statue of Unity, Gujarat
An evening projection show on the statue narrating Patel's life.
Vadodara, Gujarat
Commissioned in 1878 by Sayajirao Gaekwad III and finished in 1890 to designs by the British architects Charles Mant and Robert Chisholm, named for Sayajirao's first wife Lakshmibai. The grounds run to more than five hundred acres, which makes it the largest private residence in the world, and it is still the home of the Gaekwad family. The style is Indo-Saracenic: Indo-Islamic massing with Renaissance detail. It cost six million rupees, and had indoor lifts and its own telephone exchange when it opened. Part of it is open to visitors; the rest is a house.
Orchha, Madhya Pradesh
Reached by a straight paved path from Ram Raja, and the reason to walk it is the wall paintings inside — Bundela murals in good condition, including scenes of the 1857 fighting and the Jhansi campaign. Usually empty. Ask the caretaker to open the upper chambers.
Leh, Leh & Ladakh
Pedestrianised, so it is the one street in Leh you can walk without watching for traffic. The row of Ladakhi women selling vegetables off the pavement is the real market; the pashmina shops behind need bargaining, and not all of them are selling pashmina.
