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Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary
About 30km south of Hampi, amid a scrubby undulated terrain, lies the Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary which nurses a population of around 150 free-ranging sloth bears in an area of 83 sq km. You have a very good chance of spotting them, as honey is slathered on the rocks to coincide wi
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National Museum
Offering a compelling if not always coherent snapshot of India’s last 5000 years, this museum is not overwhelmingly large, but full of splendours. Exhibits include rare relics from the Harappan Civilisation, Buddha’s 4th to 5th century BC effects, antiquities from the Silk Route, e
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Jagniwas Island
The world-famous Lake Palace hotel island of Jagniwas is about 15,000 sq m in size, entirely covered by the opulent palace built by Maharana Jagat Singh II in 1754. Once the royal summer palace, it was greatly extended and converted into the Lake Palace Hotel in the 1960s by Mahara
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Kaziranga National Park
The famed one-horned rhinoceros, one of India’s best-known tourism mascots, calls the expansive grasslands of the Kaziranga National Park its native place. The park’s population of 1800-odd rhinos represents more than two-thirds of the world’s total; in 1904 there were just 200.The
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Daulatabad Fort
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Global Pagoda
Rising up like a mirage from polluted Gorai Creek is this breathtaking, golden 96m-high stupa modelled on Myanmar’s Shwedagon Pagoda. Its dome, which houses relics of Buddha, was built entirely without supports using an ancient technique of interlocking stones, and the meditation h
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Haji Ali Dargah
Floating like a sacred mirage off the coast, this Indo-Islamic shrine located on an offshore inlet is a striking sight. Built in the 19th century, it contains the tomb of the Muslim saint Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari. Legend has it that Haji Ali died while on a pilgrimage to Mecca and
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Spituk Gompa
Founded in the late 14th century as See-Thub (‘Exemplary’) Monastery, impressive Spituk Gompa is incongruously perched overlooking Leh’s airport runway around 5km from town. Multiple mud-brick buildings tumble merrily down a steep hillock towards Spituk village on the Indus riverba
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Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Inside the government-in-exile compound, nearly 2km downhill from the Tsuglakhang Complex, the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives began life as a repository for sacred manuscripts saved from the Cultural Revolution. Today it has over 100,000 manuscripts, books and documents i
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Khotachiwadi
This storied wadi (hamlet) is a bastion clinging onto Mumbai life as it was before high-rises. A Christian enclave of elegant two-storey wooden mansions, it’s 500m northeast of Girgaum Chowpatty, lying amid Mumbai’s predominantly Hindu and Muslim neighbourhoods. These winding lanes
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Eastern Entrances
From the east a series of gates punctuates the worn steps of the path leading up to the fort. At the bottom, the first gate you pass through is Gwalior Gate , dating from 1660, and leads to the State Archeological Museum. The second, Bansur (Archer’s Gate), has disappeared, so the
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Durpin Gompa
Kalimpong’s largest monastery, formally known as Zangtok Pelri Phodang, sits atop panoramic Durpin Hill (1372m) and was consecrated by the Dalai Lama in 1976. There are impressive religious murals in the main prayer room downstairs (photography is permitted), interesting 3D mandala
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Crystal Gallery & Durbar Hall
South of the City Palace Museum, the Crystal Gallery houses rare crystal that Maharana Sajjan Singh ordered from F&C Osler & Co in England in 1877. The maharana died before it arrived, and all the items stayed forgotten and packed up in boxes for 110 years. The extraordina
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Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary
This 121-sq-km sanctuary, 60km southwest of Ahmedabad, protects Nalsarovar Lake, a flood of island-dotted blue dissolving into the sky and iron-flat plains, and its surrounding wetlands. Between November and February, the sanctuary sees flocks of indigenous and migratory birds, wit
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Diwan
Those in favour with the emperor, or conquered rivals begging for peace, were admitted to the white marble Diwan-i-Khas (Hall of Private Audience). This delicate, wedding cake–like pavilion features some outstanding carving and inlay work. The legendary gold and jewel-studded Peaco
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Indian Museum
Indias biggest and oldest major museum celebrated its bicentenary in February 2014. Its mostly a loveably old-fashioned place that fills a large colonnaded palace ranged around a central lawn. Extensive exhibits include fabulous sculptures dating back two millennia, notably the lav
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Bala Qila
This imposing fort stands 300m above Alwar, its fortifications hugging the steep hills that lines the eastern edge of the city. Predating the time of Pratap Singh, it’s one of the few forts in Rajasthan built before the rise of the Mughals, who used it as a base for attacking Ranth
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Temple Complex
Even if you’re feeling templed-out, this temple complex is going to knock your socks off. Located about 3km north of the Rock Fort, it feels more like a self-enclosed city than a house of worship, and in truth, that’s the idea: entering this temple’s inner sanctum requires passing
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Houses of Goa Museum
This multi-level museum was created by a well-known local architect, Gerard da Cunha, to illuminate the history of Goan architecture. Interesting displays on building practices and European and local design will change the way you see those old Goan homes. The triangular building i
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Lakshman Jhula & Around
The defining image of Rishikesh is the view across the Lakshman Jhula hanging bridge to the huge, 13-storey wedding-cake temples of Swarg Niwas and Shri Trayanbakshwar . Built by the organisation of the guru Kailashanand, they resemble fairyland castles and have dozens of shrines t
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