India, by state
Twenty-eight states plus five Union Territories. Grouped by region — pick where you want to go, or use it to plot a trip.
North India
Two cities under one airport: Old Delhi (lanes, mosques, cuisine) and New Delhi (avenues, museums, embassies). Two days is honest;…
Shimla for colonial nostalgia, Manali for the mountain crowds, McLeod Ganj for the Dalai Lama, Spiti for the moonscape. The full r…
Srinagar's shikara boats + Dal Lake + Mughal gardens, plus the Gulmarg gondola. Check security advisories close to travel dates.…
High-altitude Buddhist Tibet-in-India. Leh + Pangong + Nubra is the standard loop; go June–September; acclimatise for two days bef…
Khajuraho's temples, Bandhavgarh + Kanha for tigers, Sanchi's stupa, Orchha's palace. The under-hyped state that has quietly every…
The Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Wagah border ceremony, and the country's richest agricultural belt. Two full days in Amritsar; …
The classic loop: Jaipur → Pushkar → Udaipur → Jodhpur → Jaisalmer. Two weeks minimum, palace-hotels included; the desert is best …
The Taj + Varanasi's ghats + Lucknow's nawabi food + Ayodhya + Prayagraj. Population equal to Brazil; density that rewards focus o…
Rishikesh + Haridwar for the Ganges, the Char Dham pilgrimage circuit, and Nainital + Mussoorie for hill-station tea. Rafting best…
Le Corbusier's grid-planned Union Territory. The Rock Garden + the Capitol Complex + the Sukhna Lake are the trio. Two days total …
South India
Coastal plains, Buddhist relics at Amaravati, and the pilgrimage stampede at Tirumala. Hyderabad's next-door neighbour in food and…
Bengaluru's tech + coffee, Hampi's ruined empire, Mysore's palace, Coorg's plantations, and 300 km of underrated coast. India's mo…
Backwaters, Ayurveda, Munnar tea, Fort Kochi. Kerala runs at a different tempo — book overnight houseboats + spice-plantation home…
36 islands, 10 inhabited. Bangaram + Agatti are the resort picks. Permits are complicated; go via an authorised operator rather th…
French colonial grid, cobbled streets, croissants at the bakeries, and the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. The most un-Indian Indian town — …
Chola bronze temples, Chettinad mansions, Chennai's Marina, and the Nilgiris. The state where Dravidian India is at its densest.…
Hyderabad + Golconda + Charminar + the biryani + the pearls. The Deccan sultanate story in one accessible package. Warangal's Rama…
Havelock + Neil + Port Blair. Diving-grade water, WWII-era colonial infrastructure. Nicobar is largely off-limits — plan around th…
East India
Bodhgaya's Bodhi tree, Nalanda's ruined university, and Rajgir's Jain circuit. The most spiritually dense corner of India — and on…
The Sun Temple at Konark, Puri's Jagannath, Bhubaneswar's temple sprawl, and the Chilika lagoon. India's most temple-dense stretch…
Kolkata's colonial + literary bones, Darjeeling's tea + toy train, and the Sundarbans mangroves. India's most culturally-dense cor…
West India
North Goa parties, south Goa sleeps. The Portuguese colonial layer is the best-preserved in India; the Konkan-Portuguese food is t…
Kutch's Rann of salt, the Asiatic lions of Gir, textile-heavy Ahmedabad, and the country's strictest vegetarian food. Alcohol proh…
Mumbai + the Ajanta and Ellora rock temples + the Konkan coast + the Sahyadri hill stations. Enormous, and often lumped only into …
Two ex-Portuguese enclaves on the western coast. Diu's fort, quiet beaches, and a taste of Goa without the crowds.…
Northeast India
India's easternmost state — Tawang's monastery, orchid forests, and the Brahmaputra headwaters. Foreigners need an Inner Line Perm…
Tea gardens, Kaziranga's rhinos, Kamakhya's tantric temple in Guwahati, and the largest river island on earth at Majuli.…
Loktak's floating islands, Imphal's Ima Keithel women's market, and the World War II battlefields at Kohima nearby. Inner Line Per…
Wettest place on earth. Cherrapunji's living-root bridges + Mawlynnong (Asia's cleanest village) + Umiam Lake near Shillong. Best …
Bamboo villages on razor ridges, Christian-majority hill culture, and Aizawl's near-vertical streets. Least-visited state; permits…
Kohima + the Hornbill Festival in December, tribal villages, and India's WW II Commonwealth war graves. Inner Line Permit for Indi…
Gangtok, Pelling, Yumthang Valley, Kanchenjunga views. India's cleanest state, and the only fully organic one. ILP required at the…
Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala, Neermahal's water palace, and the Unakoti rock-carvings. Small, quiet, and easy to reach via Banglad…
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