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Cities, hill towns, temple towns and villages — everywhere worth basing a trip.
Tripura
Agartala is the capital and largest city of Tripura, on the Haora river near the Bangladesh border, and the second-most populous city in Northeast India after…
Uttar Pradesh
Almost everyone rushes Agra as a day trip from Delhi, and almost everyone regrets it — the Taj deserves a dawn and the city has a second monument nearly as…
Gujarat
Ahmedabad's old city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the way to see it is a walk that starts at seven in the morning.
Mizoram
Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram, is a hill city draped across steep ridges at around 1,100 metres.
Kerala
The mistake in Alleppey is the day boat. A houseboat only becomes worth it once the day-trippers have gone home and the water goes quiet.
Punjab
The Golden Temple sits lower than the ground around it, and you walk down steps to reach the water.
Andhra Pradesh
Araku Valley is a lush coffee-growing hill region in the Eastern Ghats near Visakhapatnam, reached by one of India's most scenic train journeys through…
Uttarakhand
India's winter skiing destination, with panoramic views of Nanda Devi and snow slopes.
Ayodhya is an ancient city on the banks of the sacred Saryu, revered as the birthplace of Lord Rama and one of the seven primary holy cities of Hinduism.
Bihar
Bakraur is a village a little east of Bodh Gaya, directly across the Phalgu River from the town where the Buddha is said to have reached enlightenment.
Karnataka
Bengaluru is not a sightseeing city and trying to make it one is the mistake. Come for a weekend of eating, drinking, walking in the parks, and buying books.
Bhavnagar is a historic coastal city, founded in 1723 by Maharaja Bhavsinhji Gohil on the western rim of the Gulf of Khambhat.
Bhuj is the historic capital of the Kutch district. Highly resilient following major earthquake eras, it is a maze of royal palaces, historic stepwells, and…
Rajasthan
Bikaner gets a fraction of Jaisalmer's and Jodhpur's visitors and is a better city for it. Nothing here is queued.
Himachal Pradesh
Bir Billing is India's paragliding capital and one of the best free-flight sites in the world, set against the Dhauladhar range in Himachal Pradesh.
Bodh Gaya is the most sacred site in Buddhism — the place where Prince Siddhartha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree to become the Buddha.
Arunachal Pradesh
Bomdila is a scenic Himalayan hill town in the West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh, perched around 2,400 metres with sweeping views of snow-capped peaks.
Budhi Mai is a village in Vaishali district, on the Lalganj road at Haruli, and the reason to stop is the temple rather than the village around it.
Bundi is what Rajasthan looked like before the tour buses found it, and it is an hour off the Jaipur to Udaipur road that most people never take.
Manipur
Sixty households, 270 people at the last count in 2018, on three-quarters of a square kilometre: that is the whole of Chajing Khunou.
Champhai is Mizoram's third-largest town, a district headquarters on the India-Myanmar border roughly 180-195 km from Aizawl.
Chandigarh
Chandigarh, India's first planned city designed by Le Corbusier, is famed for its orderly sectors, modernist architecture and green spaces.
Chikmagalur is the coffee heartland of Karnataka, a lush hill district in the Western Ghats where rolling estates, misty peaks and waterfalls draw a steady…
Chhattisgarh
Coal built this town, and the mines are still the first thing anyone mentions about it, which sits oddly beside the local billing of Chhattisgarh's Jannat.
An offbeat hill station popularly dubbed the 'Mini Switzerland of Uttarakhand', and the base for the trek up to the world's highest Shiva temple.
Nagaland
Ask about the head hunting days here and you get the story told with pride rather than embarrassment: Chungtia counts itself among the few Ao villages never…
Tamil Nadu
Coonoor is the second-largest of the Nilgiri hill stations in Tamil Nadu, quieter than neighbouring Ooty and wrapped in rolling tea gardens.
Coorg is coffee country, and the point of coming is to stay on an estate rather than in Madikeri, which is a hill town with traffic.
Dalhousie is a peaceful colonial-era hill station built across five distinct hills of the Dhauladhar mountain range, sitting at an altitude of 1,970 metres.
West Bengal
Darjeeling sits at about 2,042 metres on a steep mountain ridge of the Lesser Himalayas in northern West Bengal, under the snow mass of Mount Kanchenjunga…
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