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Written by us for each destination — when to visit, how to get around, what to eat and where to stay.

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Sultanganj Travel Guide

Sultanganj is a sacred riverside town in Bihar's Bhagalpur district, revered as the starting point of the Kanwar Yatra. Pilgrim...

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Baidyanath Dham Travel Guide

Visiting Baba Baidyanath Dham is, for most pilgrims, the entire purpose of the journey - so this guide focuses specifically on ...

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Bangalore Travel Guide

Bangalore (officially Bengaluru ) is the capital of Karnataka and is known as the Silicon Valley of India . The city perfectly ...

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Kolkata Travel Guide

Kolkata is India's third-largest urban agglomeration and, for a century and a half, was the most important city in the British ...

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Hyderabad Travel Guide

Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana, is one of India's most fascinating cities where centuries-old heritage blends seamlessly w...

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Mumbai Travel Guide

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Deoghar Travel Guide

Deoghar is the site of Baba Baidyanath Dham, one of the twelve Jyotirlingas and among the most visited Shiva shrines in India. ...

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Jaipur Travel Guide

Jaipur, popularly known as the Pink City of India , is the capital of Rajasthan and one of the country's most visited tourist d...

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Goa Travel Guide

Goa occupies a small strip of the Konkan coast between Maharashtra and Karnataka — about 3,700 square kilometres, India's small...

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Chennai Travel Guide

Chennai is India's sixth-largest city and the cultural capital of the Tamil-speaking world. It sits on the Coromandel Coast in ...

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Delhi Travel Guide

Delhi has been the seat of power in northern India, on and off, for close to a thousand years. It is a city that has been destr...

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Pune Travel Guide

Pune occupies an unusual position in Indian travel. It is a major city — Maharashtra's second largest, an IT and manufacturing ...

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Varanasi Travel Guide

Varanasi claims to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. Whether or not that claim survives strict scrutiny, ...

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Rishikesh Travel Guide

Rishikesh is where the Ganga comes down out of the Himalayas, and the town has organised its whole character around that river....

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Haridwar Travel Guide

Haridwar means "Gateway to God," and the city has earned the name — it's where the Ganga leaves the Himalayas, and it's one of ...

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Shimla Travel Guide

Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh and once the summer capital of British India, is among North India's most popular and a...

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Manali Travel Guide

Manali, in Himachal's Kullu Valley on the banks of the Beas, is one of India's top destinations for mountain adventure and hone...

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Mussoorie Travel Guide

Mussoorie, the "Queen of the Hills", sits in the Garhwal Himalayas near Dehradun and is one of the closest full-fledged hill st...

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Nainital Travel Guide

Nainital is a lake town in the Kumaon Himalayas built around the crescent-shaped Naini Lake, with the Naina Devi temple on its ...

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Darjeeling Travel Guide

Darjeeling sits on a ridge above the tea valleys of West Bengal, famous for its tea estates, colonial charm, views of Kanchenju...

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Ooty Travel Guide

Ooty (Udhagamandalam), the "Queen of the Nilgiris", sits in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu. Known for its colonial charm, tea ...

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Munnar Travel Guide

Munnar, in Kerala's Western Ghats, is famous for its emerald tea plantations, cool climate and rolling green hills. Tea estates...

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Coorg Travel Guide

Coorg (Kodagu), with its hill town Madikeri in Karnataka's Western Ghats, is known as the "Scotland of India" for its misty cof...

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Gangtok Travel Guide

Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, is one of India's cleanest and most welcoming hill towns, set in the eastern Himalayas. It offe...

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Mount Abu Travel Guide

Mount Abu is Rajasthan's only hill station, an oasis in the Aravalli Range with its highest peak Guru Shikhar. Famed for the ex...

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Dalhousie Travel Guide

Dalhousie is a colonial-era hill station spread across five hills on the Dhauladhar range in Himachal's Chamba district. Known ...

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Dharamshala Travel Guide

Dharamshala, in the Kangra Valley below the Dhauladhar range, is the home of the Dalai Lama and centred on the suburb of McLeod...

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Kasauli Travel Guide

Kasauli is a small, quiet colonial cantonment hill station in Himachal's Solan district, close to Chandigarh. Its pine walks, h...

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Chail Travel Guide

Chail is a tranquil, forested hill station near Shimla, built by the Maharaja of Patiala as his summer retreat. It is known for...

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Ranikhet Travel Guide

Ranikhet is a quiet cantonment hill station in Uttarakhand's Kumaon region, home to the Kumaon Regiment. Set amid pine and deod...

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Almora Travel Guide

Almora, the cultural heart of Kumaon, sits on a crescent-shaped Himalayan ridge in Uttarakhand. Known for Kumaoni culture and c...

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Munsiyari Travel Guide

Munsiyari is a remote, high hill town in Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh district, famed for front-row views of the five Panchachuli ...

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Auli Travel Guide

Auli is a high-altitude ski destination and alpine meadow above Joshimath in Uttarakhand's Garhwal Himalayas. Famed for winter ...

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Kalimpong Travel Guide

Kalimpong is a tranquil hill town in West Bengal's eastern Himalayas, set between the Deolo and Durpin hills. Known for Buddhis...

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Shillong Travel Guide

Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, is a hill city in the Khasi Hills long called the "Scotland of the East". Known for waterfa...

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Vagamon Travel Guide

Vagamon is a serene hill station in Kerala's Western Ghats, spread across rolling green meadows and pine forests. Nicknamed the...

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Kodaikanal Travel Guide

Kodaikanal, the "Princess of Hill Stations", sits in the Palani hills of Tamil Nadu's Western Ghats. Known for its star-shaped ...

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Coonoor Travel Guide

Coonoor is the second-largest Nilgiri hill station in Tamil Nadu, a quieter, greener alternative to nearby Ooty. Known for tea ...

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Chikmagalur Travel Guide

Chikmagalur, the "Coffee Land of Karnataka", lies at the foot of the Mullayanagiri range in the Western Ghats. Famed for coffee...

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Mahabaleshwar Travel Guide

Mahabaleshwar is the largest hill station in Maharashtra's Western Ghats and a former summer capital of the Bombay Presidency. ...

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