Things to do in India

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Attraction

Somnath Mahadev Temple

Somnath, Gujarat

The first of the twelve jyotirlingas of Shiva, at Prabhas Patan near Veraval on the Saurashtra coast, and one of the most contested sites in Indian history. The Mahabharata and the Bhagavata Purana both name a tirtha here long before archaeology can confirm a building; the earliest datable temple falls somewhere between the first centuries CE and the ninth. It was destroyed and rebuilt repeatedly, beginning with Mahmud of Ghazni's raid in January 1026. The ruins standing at independence were cleared and the present temple built in the Maru-Gurjara style. The sea starts immediately behind it.

Attraction

Somnath Temple

Somnath, Gujarat

The grand seaside Jyotirlinga temple of Lord Shiva.

Experience

Sound & Light Show

Somnath, Gujarat

An evening show projected with the temple and sea as backdrop.

Viewpoint

Southern Minaret

Jama Masjid (Delhi), Delhi

About a hundred and thirty steps up a tight spiral to the best view of Old Delhi there is. Separate ticket, and the mosque does not permit women to climb unaccompanied — worth knowing before you queue.

Accommodation Area

Spangmik Village

Pangong Tso, Leh & Ladakh

The primary rural settlement on the lake banks hosting most of the luxury tented camps and local homestays.

Attraction

Sri Mallikarjuna Swamy Temple

Bhramaramba (Mallikarjuna) Temple, Andhra Pradesh

The adjacent sacred Shiva shrine, allowing pilgrims to touch the Jyotirlinga stone directly during scheduled public darshan hours.

Experience

Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir

Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh

Opened in January 2024 in pink Rajasthani sandstone, Nagara style, three storeys, with work still finishing around it. Phones and bags are not allowed in, so use the lockers before you join the queue.

Attraction

Srikalahasti Temple

Srikalahasti, Andhra Pradesh

An ancient Shiva temple of the wind element, famed for its windless flickering lamp.

Attraction

St. Mary's Church

Gulmarg, Jammu & Kashmir

A small grey stone church from 1902 with a green roof, standing out in the meadow. It is usually locked, so this is a five-minute stop on a walk rather than somewhere to go.

Attraction

St. Thomas Hilltop Shrine

Malayattoor, Kerala

The Vatican-recognised hilltop church reached by a forest climb.

Attraction

Statue of Unity

Kevadia (Ekta Nagar), Gujarat

At 182 metres, the tallest statue in the world — Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, independence leader and independent India's first deputy prime minister and home minister, standing above the Narmada facing the Sardar Sarovar dam, about a hundred kilometres south-east of Vadodara. Announced by Narendra Modi as Gujarat's chief minister in 2010, built by Larsen and Toubro from October 2013 at a cost of ₹27 billion, designed by the sculptor Ram V. Sutar, and inaugurated on 31 October 2018, which would have been Patel's 143rd birthday.

Viewpoint

Statue Viewing Gallery

Statue of Unity, Gujarat

A gallery at 153 m inside the statue with valley and dam views.

Experience

Sudarshan Setu & Beyt Dwarka

Dwarka, Gujarat

India's longest cable-stayed bridge leading across the sea to Beyt Dwarka island, the historic residential court of Lord Krishna.

Viewpoint

Sudhanyakhali Watch Tower

Sundarbans National Park, West Bengal

A caged platform over a freshwater pond the forest department maintains to draw animals in. Deer and boar most days, a crocodile often, a tiger very rarely. It is the likeliest spot in the park, which is not the same as likely.

Viewpoint

Suicide Point Roghi

Kalpa (Kinnaur), Himachal Pradesh

A roadside viewpoint on the way to Roghi village, where the cliff drops almost vertically into the river gorge below.

Viewpoint

Sukhna Lake

Chandigarh, Chandigarh

A scenic man-made lake popular for boating and sunset walks.

Attraction

Suraj Kund waterfall

Gangotri, Uttarakhand

A fall on the Bhagirathi a few hundred metres from the temple, at its loudest just after the temple opens in spring, when the melt is heavy.

Attraction

Surya Kund

Yamunotri, Uttarakhand

A boiling spring beside the temple, hot enough that pilgrims lower rice and potatoes into it in cloth bundles and carry them home as prasad. That is the thing to stand and watch.