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Twenty-four regions across India and its neighbours. Each one has a details page with a suggested itinerary, the best months to go, and what a quote usually covers.

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Konark Sun Temple, Odisha
India

Odisha

Our home state – a thousand years of temple building, a coast nobody has spoiled, and the largest brackish lagoon in Asia.
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The Lake Palace on Lake Pichola, Udaipur
India

Rajasthan

Lake palaces, blue streets and a desert fort that is still lived in – Rajasthan at a pace that leaves room for the afternoons.
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Facade of Jaipur Hawa Mahal from Tattoo Cafe
India

The Golden Triangle

The classic first trip to India, arranged around dawn and dusk so you see the famous things without the coaches.
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Sunset through the palm trees of the Keralan backwaters.
India

Kerala

A private houseboat on the backwaters, tea hills that are cold at dawn, and a coast that has been trading with the world for two thousand years.
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Virupaksha Temple, Hampi
India

Karnataka

A ruined capital scattered across a boulder field, a palace lit by fifty thousand bulbs, coffee hills that smell of pepper, and a coastline nobody has spoiled yet.
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Madurai: Madurai and view of the gopurams of Meenakshi temple, State of Tamil Nadu, India
India

Tamil Nadu

Temples that never became museums – still working, still loud, still the centre of the towns built around them.
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The Arabian Sea coast, Goa
India

Goa

Not the Goa of the package brochures. Portuguese churches, a river with spice farms up it, and the southern beaches where nothing much happens.
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The white salt desert, Rann of Kutch
India

Gujarat & the Rann

A salt desert that turns white to the horizon, and the finest surviving textile traditions in India, village by village.
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A panoramic view of Pangong Tso lake of Ladakh. This image has been cropped from the original for use in a Wikivoyage Pagebanner template.
India

Ladakh & Spiti

High desert, working monasteries and roads that only exist for four months of the year – with acclimatisation built in rather than bolted on.
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Khajuraho: The western group of temples at Khajuraho is known for the architecture and erotic sculpting. These sculptures depict a lot of contemporary stories and talk abo
India

Madhya Pradesh

The temples everyone has heard of for the wrong reason, a riverside town nobody has heard of at all, and a fort on a cliff above both.
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Ellora: Kailasa temple is a megalith carved out of one single basalt rock. Its construction is attributed to king Krishna I (c. 8th century). It is one of the most rema
India

Ajanta & Ellora

A temple carved downwards out of a single hillside, and painted caves that were lost in the jungle for a thousand years.
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Amritsar: darbar sahib and akal takht
India

Punjab & Amritsar

A gold temple in the middle of a tank, a kitchen that feeds a hundred thousand people a day for nothing, and the best food in north India.
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Uttarakhand: Valley of Flowers (june month)
India

Uttarakhand

Where the Ganges is still cold and clear, and a day’s walk gets you to meadows nobody has built on.
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Boats at sunrise on the Ganges, Varanasi
India

Varanasi & the Ganges

The ghats at first light from a private boat, and an evening aarti watched from the water rather than the crush on the steps.
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Darjeeling: The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also known as the Toy Train, is a 2 ft narrow-gauge railway based on zig zag and loop-line technology.It was declared a World
India

Darjeeling & Sikkim

Tea gardens on impossible slopes, a toy train that still runs on steam, and Kanchenjunga filling the whole northern sky.
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The Radhanagar sea beach is one of best beaches in India and comparable to Bangkok beaches. Clear, Sky Colour water and beautiful beach attracts tourists around
India

The Andamans

Indian territory closer to Myanmar than to Chennai, with the clearest water in the country and a colonial prison nobody should skip.
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Bengal tiger, Ranthambore National Park
India

Wildlife & National Parks

Tiger in the central parks, rhino in Assam and leopard in the Jawai hills – with naturalists who read tracks rather than chase radio calls.
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ChatGPT said: Eco Park, perched on the high cliffs of Cherrapunji in Meghalaya, is a beautiful, well-maintained natural retreat offering panoramic views of the
India

The Northeast

Cloud forests, the clearest river in India and living bridges grown from tree roots – the part of the country almost nobody books.
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Paro Taktsang, View from the steps
Neighbouring Asia

Bhutan

A country that limits its own tourism on purpose – dzongs, high valleys and the walk up to the Tiger’s Nest.
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Lion paw on the Sigiriya rock, Sri Lanka
Neighbouring Asia

Sri Lanka

A rock fortress, tea trains through the hills and a southern coast of empty beaches – all within a few hours of each other.
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Une vue aérienne de Veyofushi dans l'atoll de Baa, aux Maldives.
Neighbouring Asia

Maldives

Water villas when you want them, island guest houses when you would rather not – and the reefs that justify the seaplane.
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Railay Beach, Krabi, Thailand
Neighbouring Asia

Thailand

A city worth more than a stopover, hill country in the north, and limestone islands in water the colour of a swimming pool.
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Lanterns in the old town, Hoi An, Vietnam
Neighbouring Asia

Vietnam

A long, narrow country best travelled end to end – old Hanoi, a night on the water, and a tailor’s town on the central coast.
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Supertree Grove, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Neighbouring Asia

Singapore

The easiest first trip abroad from India – short flights, no language barrier, and far more to it than the shopping.
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