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Art Museum
Inside the temples eastern gopuram, youll find the Nayak-period Thousand Pillar Hall (with 985 columns) on your right. This is now the Art Museum, where you can admire at your leisure a Shiva shrine with a large bronze Nataraja at the end of a corridor of superbly carved pillars, p
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Marine Drive
Built on reclaimed land in 1920, Marine Drive arcs along the shore of the Arabian Sea from Nariman Point past Girgaum Chowpatty and continues to the foot of Malabar Hill. Lined with flaking art deco apartments, it’s one of Mumbai’s most popular promenades and sunset-watching spots.
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Puthe Maliga Palace Museum
The 200-year-old palace of the Travancore maharajas has carved wooden ceilings, marble sculptures and imported Belgian glass. Inside you’ll find Kathakali images, an armoury, portraits of maharajas, ornate thrones and other artefacts. Admission includes an informative one-hour guid
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Stakna Gompa
Small but visually impressive, the 1618 Stakna Gompa crowns a rocky outcrop across the Indus. Off the small central courtyard are four rooms with vivid new Tantric murals. Behind the main prayer hall, smaller subshrines retain 400-year-old sandalwood statues, original frescoes and
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Hill Palace Museum
Hill Palace Museum at Tripunithura, 12km southeast of Ernakulam, was formerly the residence of the Kochi royal family and is an impressive 49-building palace complex. It now houses the collections of the royal families, as well as 19th-century oil paintings, old coins, sculptures a
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Alamgir Dargah
The scruffy-walled settlement of Khuldabad (Heavenly Abode) is a quaint little Muslim pilgrimage village just 3km from Ellora. Buried deep in the pages of history, Khuldabad is where a number of historic figures lie interred, including emperor Aurangzeb, the last of the Mughal grea
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Bhagton ki Choti Haveli
On the external western wall of Bhagton ki Choti Haveli is a locomotive and a steamship. Above them, elephant-bodied gopis (milkmaids) dance. Adjacent to this, women dance during the Holi festival. Inside you’ll find a host of other murals, including one strange picture (in a room
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Jaswant Thada
This milky-white marble memorial to Maharaja Jaswant Singh II, sitting above a small lake 1km northeast of Mehrangarh, is an array of whimsical domes. It’s a welcome, peaceful spot after the hubbub of the city, and the views across to the fort and over the city are superb. Built in
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Eastern Gateway
The breathtakingly carved figure of a yakshi, hanging from an architrave on the Eastern Gateway, is one of Sanchi’s best-known images. One of the pillars, supported by elephants, features scenes from Buddha’s entry to nirvana. Another shows Buddha’s mother Maya’s dream of an elepha
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Ana Sagar
This large lake, created in the 12th century by damming the River Luni, is set against the blue-grey hills that are reflected on its oily surface. On its bank are two green parks, the Subash Bagh and Dault Bagh , containing a series of marble pavilions erected in 1637 by Shah Jahan
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Mausoleum of Job Charnock
At the back northwest corner of St Johns Church grounds theres a small gated cemetery part-paved with 18th-century grave stones. The obvious centrepiece of this area is a hollow thick-walled octagonal cenotaph on whose inner wall youll find the grave of Job Charnock, disputed found
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Nasiyan (Red) Temple
This marvellous Jain temple, built in 1865, is also known as the Golden Temple, due to its amazing display in the double-storey temple hall. The hall is filled with a huge golden diorama depicting the Jain concept of the ancient world, with 13 continents and oceans, the intricate g
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Vishram Ghat & Around
A string of ghats and temples lines the Yamuna River north of the main road bridge. The most central and most popular is Vishram Ghat, where Krishna is said to have rested after killing the tyrannical King Kansa. Boats gather along the banks here to take tourists along the Yamuna (
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Morjim Beach
A tiny, bleak beachfront village at the mouth of the Chapora River, Morjim is the destination of choice for long-staying Russians, many of whom rent whole houses and settle in for the season. It’s worth a visit to brush up on your Cyrillic, paddle á la Black Sea, wander the riverba
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Colonial Architecture
For architecture buffs, Mysore has quite a handful of charming buildings. Dating from 1805, Government House , formerly the British Residency, is a Tuscan Doric building set in 20 hectares of gardens. Facing the north gate of the Maharaja’s Palace is the 1927 Silver Jubilee Clock T
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Museum on India’s Struggle for Freedom
Housed in a colonial-era block, the Museum on India’s Struggle for Freedom tells the story of the Independence struggle. If you walk on through the dilapidated barracks, you’ll reach a deserted baoli (step-well), which the British used as a prison, and a causeway leading to the Sal
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Thar Heritage Museum
This private museum has an intriguing assortment of Jaisalmer artefacts, from turbans, musical instruments, fossils and kitchen equipment to displays on birth, marriage, death and opium customs. It’s brought alive by the guided tour you’ll get from its founder, local historian and
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Central Asian Museum
This tapered four-storey stone tower is new but with a design based on an historic Lhasa mansion with the added flourish of a fortress-style drawbridge. Exhibits are relatively limited but the top floor Faces of Ladakh mini photo-essays are thought provoking. The museum hides in a
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Cave 16
Cave 16, a vihara, contains some of Ajanta’s finest paintings and is thought to have been the original entrance to the entire complex. The best known of these paintings is the ‘dying princess’ – Sundari, wife of the Buddha’s half-brother Nanda, who is said to have fainted at the ne
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Lal Bagh Palace
Built between 1886 and 1921, Lal Bagh Palace is the finest building left by the Holkar dynasty. Replicas of the Buckingham Palace gates creak at the entrance to the 28-hectare garden, where, close to the palace, there’s a statue of Queen Victoria. The palace is dominated by Europea
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