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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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