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Viewpoint
Chikmagalur, Karnataka
Karnataka's highest peak, a popular sunrise trek with sweeping Western Ghats views.
Attraction
Mysuru (Mysore Palace), Karnataka
The royal palace: three storeys of carved mahogany ceilings, stained-glass pavilions and museum rooms of rare weapons.
Experience
Nainital, Uttarakhand
The town's central lake, famous for boating and the lakeside Mall.
Mount Abu, Rajasthan
The lake at the centre of Rajasthan's only hill station, up in the Aravallis, and the reason Mount Abu gets called an oasis in the desert — a plateau twenty-two kilometres long carrying rivers, waterfalls and evergreen forest, in a state that has very little of any of them. Pedal boats go out from the shore and the walk around the water is the town's evening ritual. The rock formations on the ridge above have collected names over the years; Toad Rock is the one everybody photographs. The lake is treated as sacred, so it is a place to walk around rather than swim in.
Chilika & Rambha Coast, Odisha
A lagoon island that hosts huge flocks of migratory birds.
Nalanda, Bihar
The vast UNESCO-listed red-brick remains of the ancient university.
Gangtok, Sikkim
Founded in 1958, holding one of the largest collections of Tibetan manuscripts outside Tibet along with thangkas and ritual bronzes. Quiet enough to take your time in; check the day's opening hours before making the trip.
Kalpa (Kinnaur), Himachal Pradesh
Kinnauri kath-kuni construction — alternating courses of timber and dry stone, which is what keeps these buildings up through earthquakes. Photography inside is usually not allowed, and visitors are sometimes asked not to enter the sanctum.
Konark Sun Temple, Odisha
An elevated columned stone structure standing before the main hall, carpeted entirely with fine reliefs of classical musicians and dancers.
Tsomgo Lake & Nathula Pass, Sikkim
The high-altitude international border gate at 4,310 metres on the Silk Road, featuring a victory monument and direct visibility of Chinese outposts.
Bikaner, Rajasthan
A government research farm rather than an attraction, open only in the afternoon. Four Indian camel breeds are kept here, and the kiosk sells camel-milk ice cream, which is what everyone actually remembers.
Kaziranga National Park, Assam
A local bio-park located near the gate, hosting hundreds of rare native orchid species, traditional loom exhibits, and Assam folk dances.
Navsari, Gujarat
Fifteen acres at Dandi marking where the Salt March ended on 5 April 1930 and Gandhi broke the British salt monopoly by boiling seawater. It cost about ₹89 crore and opened in 2019: a path lined with statues of the marchers who walked the full distance from Sabarmati, and salt pans worked by solar evaporation, so the act itself is repeated rather than described. It is a memorial rather than a museum, and it lands better if you have been to Sabarmati Ashram first — that is where the walk started.
Kalighat Kali Temple, West Bengal
The large pillared hall facing the main shrine, open on all sides and built for devotional singing and community gatherings.
Vijaynagar Beach (Neil), Andaman & Nicobar Islands
A naturally formed coral rock arch near the island's shore.
Gondal, Gujarat
The oldest surviving palace in Gondal, dating to 1748 and the reign of Haloji Sagramji, inside the Darbargadh fort complex. The name means nine lakh — what it cost to build. Carved jharokha balconies, a pillared courtyard, delicately cut arches and a spiral staircase that is the thing most people photograph. The durbar hall is lit by chandeliers and still holds gilt wooden furniture, antique mirrors and stuffed panthers, which age badly as a display. The private museum keeps the silver caskets sent to Maharaja Bhagwat Sinhji for his silver jubilee.
Jogulamba Temple, Telangana
A group of nine 7th-century stone temples exhibiting northern Rekha-Nagara architectural spires and complex structural gate reliefs.
Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
Six kilometres up the Badrinath road, then about a kilometre on foot from the gate. Full during and after the monsoon, a trickle by April. Small entry fee.
Girnar Hills, Gujarat
A walled cluster of marble Jain temples around the 3,500-step mark, built between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Neminath's temple at the centre is the main one, and the courtyards are the first flat ground on the climb, so most people rest here.
Murudeshwar Beach, Karnataka
Boat dives to the coral-rich waters off Netrani (Pigeon) Island.
Maravanthe Beach, Karnataka
The famous stretch flanked by sea and river simultaneously.
Kamakhya Temple, Assam
The edge of the hill just past the temple, looking down on the Brahmaputra as it bends around Guwahati. Two minutes from the queue, and almost nobody walks over to it.
Sonamarg, Jammu & Kashmir
A scenic mountain stream junction where the reddish waters of the Nilagrad meet the Sindh River, revered locally for healing properties.
Ooty (Udhagamandalam), Tamil Nadu
The historic UNESCO World Heritage steam toy train that winds scenic tracks across deep gorges, high bridges, and dark pine valleys.
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