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Jind

Haryana

Jind

One of the oldest and largest cities in its district, and the district headquarters, which tells you what to expect.

Kargil

Leh & Ladakh

Kargil

Kargil is Ladakh's second-largest urban centre after Leh and its joint capital, 204 km east of Srinagar and 234 km west of Leh.

Valsad

Gujarat

Valsad

Valsad, once known as Bulsar, sits at the southern tip of Gujarat on the Arabian Sea.

Navsari

Gujarat

Navsari

Navsari is an old town near the Purna river delta in south Gujarat, long linked with neighbouring Surat.

Rajmahal Mehsana Gujarat India

Gujarat

Mehsana

Mehsana is a busy city in northern Gujarat, known for the Dudhsagar dairy — one of India's largest cooperative dairies — and for its oil and gas fields.

Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Bhavnagar

Gujarat

Bhavnagar

Bhavnagar is a historic coastal city, founded in 1723 by Maharaja Bhavsinhji Gohil on the western rim of the Gulf of Khambhat.

Jamnagar

Gujarat

Jamnagar

Jamnagar, once the princely capital of Nawanagar under the Jadeja rulers, sits on the southern Gulf of Kutch.

Porbandar

Gujarat

Porbandar

Porbandar is a coastal town on the Saurashtra shore of the Arabian Sea, remembered in tradition as the birthplace of Sudama, Krishna's childhood friend, and…

North Facade Close Central Arcade IIT Gandhinagar Sep25 A7CR

Gujarat

Gandhinagar

Gandhinagar is Gujarat's planned capital, laid out on the west bank of the Sabarmati by the architects H.K. Mewada and Prakash M.

Junagadh

Gujarat

Junagadh

Resting right at the base of the sacred, volcanic Girnar hills, Junagadh is an ancient city whose name means 'Old Fort'.

Vadodara

Gujarat

Vadodara

Vadodara, historically Baroda, is the cultural capital of Gujarat, and the Gaekwad dynasty made it the grand city it is.

Bhuj

Gujarat

Bhuj

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…

Ahmedabad

Gujarat

Ahmedabad

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.

Kevadia (Ekta Nagar)

Gujarat

Kevadia (Ekta Nagar)

Kevadia, now officially Ekta Nagar, is home to the Statue of Unity — at 182 metres, the tallest statue in the world — on the banks of the Narmada River.

Agra

Uttar Pradesh

Agra

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…

Bengaluru (Bangalore)

Karnataka

Bengaluru (Bangalore)

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.

Chandigarh

Chandigarh

Chandigarh

Chandigarh, India's first planned city designed by Le Corbusier, is famed for its orderly sectors, modernist architecture and green spaces.

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi is not one city, it is seven of them stacked on the same ground, and the reason first visits go wrong is trying to see it as one place.

Gangtok

Sikkim

Gangtok

Gangtok is where most Sikkim trips begin, and its real value is as a base rather than a destination.

Gwalior

Madhya Pradesh

Gwalior

Gwalior's fort sits on a sandstone plateau above the city and is one of the least visited great forts in India, which is most of its appeal.

Imphal

Manipur

Imphal

Imphal, the capital of Manipur, is a culturally rich valley city famed for the all-women Ima Keithel market, the WWII Imphal battle sites, classical Manipuri…

The pink sandstone facade of Hawa Mahal, the Palace of Winds, in Jaipur

Rajasthan

Jaipur

Jaipur repays getting up early more than almost anywhere in Rajasthan, because by ten the coaches have arrived and Amber Fort stops being a fort and becomes a…

Jaisalmer

Rajasthan

Jaisalmer

Jaisalmer is built from the same yellow sandstone it stands on, which is why at six in the evening the whole fort looks lit from inside — and why at midday it…

Jodhpur

Rajasthan

Jodhpur

Mehrangarh is the best fort in India, and if you only climb one in Rajasthan it should be this one.