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Savour the Thar’s legendary sunsets from the rooftop of a carved haveli in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan’s remote desert citadel, as local Langa musicians provide the soundtrack.
For all Jaipur’s swagger and panache, many regard nearby Amber Fort as the real highlight of their visit to northeastern Rajasthan – a fairy tale palace with a location every bit as dreamy as its architecture.
Rajasthan’s sprawling capital was conceived by its creator as the apotheosis of Rajput splendour, and the walled city at its heart remains a quintessentially Rajasthani feast of extravagant palaces and bazaars.
Join the euphoric crowds who gather on the riverside ghats at Haridwar for evening Aarti, when thousands of floating candles are set adrift on the Ganges.
An aura of great sanctity and pride surrounds the Sikhs' holiest shrine, the Golden Temple, in Amritsar.
Hidden on the edge of a small hamlet in Ladakh’s Indus Valley is a cluster of three richly decorated Buddhist shrines created nearly a thousand years ago, before the faith had crossed the Himalayas and reached Tibet.
Tikse is the most imposing of the many whitewashed Buddhist monasteries dotted along the Indus Valley in central Ladakh – India’s “Little Tibet”. Climb to its rooftop for a sublime panorama of patchwork barely fields and Himalayan peaks.
India’s ultimate road journey takes you from the Alpine splendour of the Kullu Valley across the Himalayan watershed to a moonscape of vast, snow-streaked mountains.
Home of the Tibetan spiritual leader in exile, the Dalai Lama, Dharamsala is a very special kind of hill station – a little corner of Tibet transplanted to a forested spur of the Dhauladhar mountains.
Whether Kashi, Banares or Varanasi, the holiest of Hindu cities on the banks of the river Ganges exerts a fascination like no other. Jump in a boat at dawn to see its crowded bathing ghats in full swing.
Islands of old-world Islamic sophistication amid a sea of modern decrepitude, the monuments of 18th-century Lucknow bear witness to the boundless decadence, wealth and sophistication of its former rulers, the kings of Avadh.
A ghost town of ruined palaces and tombs, the vestiges of the Malwar Sultans once opulent capital, Shadiabad, comprise some of the finest collections of Islamic monuments in Asia, scattered over rocky plateau above the Narmada Valley.
High religious art or salacious pornography? Opinion is divided over exactly why the Chandella kings of central India chose to adorn their most important temples in eyebrow-raising erotica.
Discover the deserted capital of the once powerful Bundela dynasty, whose beautiful palaces, temples and cenotaphs rise from a remote riverbank of boulder outcrops and sandstone slabs.
Former capital of the great Mughal Emperor Akbar, Fatehpur Sikri is a vast palace complex draped over a ridge to the east of Agra. Deserted only a decade-and-a-half after it was built, the site remains a ghost city on the grandest of scales.
One of India’s greatest spectacles is the bird’s-eye view from Jodhpur’s imposing palace-fortress, over the old city below, painted a hundred shades of blue.
Dating from the era when this sand-blown backwater straddled a major trade artery, Shekhawati’s painted havelis (mansions) rank among the great storehouses of India folk art.
No visit to India is complete without a journey on its incomparable railway network – whether in a crowded commuter train or luxury carriage of the glittering ‘Palace on Wheels’.
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