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Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technical Museum
One mainly for kids, this hands-on science museum makes you feel a bit like you’re on a school excursion, but there are some cool electrical and engineering displays, plus kitschy fun-house mirrors and a walk-on piano. There’s also a replica of the Wright brothers’ 1903 flyer.
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Svayambhu Temple
At the centre of Warangal fort are the partly-reassembled remains of the huge Shaivite Svayambhu Temple, with four handsome, large torana gateways standing at its cardinal points. The ticket also covers the Kush Mahal (Shitab Khan Mahal), a 16th-century royal hall 400m west.
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Tropical Spice Plantation
Accessed via a bamboo bridge, around 5km north of Ponda, this is one of the most popular farms with tour groups and visitors. An entertaining 45-minute tour of the spice plantation is followed by a banana-leaf buffet lunch. Elephant rides/bathings are available for an extra ₹700.
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Taramati Baradari
According to legend, this elegant pavilion atop a hill 4km from Golconda Fort was built by Sultan Abdullah Qutb Shah for his courtesan, Taramati, whose singing and dancing performances the sultan watched from a perch at the fort. Autorickshaws charge ₹300 return from Golconda.
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Sea Shell Museum
This museum, 6km from town on the Nagoa road, is a labour of love. Captain Devjibhai Vira Fulbaria, a merchant navy captain, collected thousands of shells from literally all over the world in 50 years of sailing, and has displayed and labelled them in English with great care.
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Sahaj Ram Poddar Chhatri
About 10 minutes’ walk from the bus stand, past the fort on the right-hand side of Ramgarh Rd, is the Sahaj Ram Poddar Chhatri. Some archways have been bricked in, but there are still some well-preserved paintings on the lower walls of this well-proportioned and attractive building
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Gomang Stupa
This 9th-century stupa rises in concentric serrated layers flanked by numerous chortens. Recent restoration masks its aura of great antiquity but its peaceful, shady setting remains a refreshingly spiritual escape from the tourist-centric developments of surrounding Changspa.
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Babu Amichand Panalal Adishwarji Jain Temple
This temple is renowned among Jains for its beauty – given how beautiful Jain temples are, that’s saying a lot. Check out the paintings and especially the ecstatically colourful zodiac dome ceiling. It’s a small, actively used temple; visitors should be sensitive and dress modestly
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Ancestral Goa
Ancestral Goa is a high kitsch park with a series of sculptures depicting traditional Goan lifestyle. Follow the numbered trail to the mysterious ‘Big Foot’, a footprint in the rock that you can touch and make a wish on, and Sant Mirabai, the largest laterite sculpture in India.
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Kumbeshwara Temple
Kumbeshwara Temple, entered via a nine-storey gopuram and with a long porticoed mandapa, is Kumbakonams biggest Shiva temple. It dates from the 17th and 18th centuries and contains a lingam said to have been made by Shiva himself when he mixed the nectar of immortality with sand.
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Sulabh International Museum of Toilets
Run by a pioneering charity that has done extraordinary work bringing sanitation to the poor of India, this quirky museum displays toilet-related paraphernalia dating from 2500 BC to modern times. It’s around 20km west of Connaught Place. Take the metro to Janakpuri West, then take
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Devaraja Market
Dating from Tipu Sultan’s reign, this lively bazaar has local traders selling traditional items such as flower garlands, spices and conical piles of kumkum (coloured powder used for bindi dots), all of which makes for some great photo-ops. Refresh your bargaining skills before shop
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PKACT House
Run by the Chennai-based M.Rm.Rm. Cultural Foundation , this particularly well-preserved early-1900s mansion mixes modern and traditional architecture. Unusually, you can tour the whole house; upstairs, theres a superb collection of Ravi Varma prints. Kottaiyur is 6km north of Kara
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Lalbagh Botanical Gardens
Spread over 240 acres of landscaped terrain, the expansive Lalbagh Botanical Gardens were laid out in 1760 by the famous Mysore ruler Hyder Ali. As well as amazing centuries-old trees it claims to have the world’s most diverse species of plants. You can take a guided tour with Bang
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Jalakantesvara Temple
Inside Vellore Fort, the Jalakantesvara Temple, a gem of late Vijayanagar architecture, dates from around 1566, and was once occupied as a garrison. Check out the small, detailed sculptures - especially the dragons - on the walls and columns of the marriage hall in the southwest co
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Great Buddha Statue
This 25m-high statue towers above a pleasant garden at the end of Temple St. The impressive monument was unveiled by the Dalai Lama in 1989 and is surrounded by 10 smaller sculptures of Buddha’s disciples. The statue is partially hollow and is said to contain some 20,000 bronze Bud
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Kunzum La
At the Chandratal turn-off, the main road leaves the river and switchbacks precipitously up to the 4551m Kunzum La, the watershed between Lahaul and Spiti. Vehicles perform a respectful circuit of the stupas strewn with fluttering prayer flags at the top before continuing down into
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Khajjiar
About 10km down the main road from Lakkar Mandi, the large, bowl-shaped, pine-ringed marg (meadow) at Khajjiar, touted as a mini-Switzerland, would be beautiful if it wasnt thronged by holidaymakers and horse-ride hawkers and didnt have an ugly cluster of restaurants at its north e
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Bombay Panjrapole
In the middle of bustling Bhuleshwar market is, of all things, this shelter for 300 homeless cows. Donkeys, goats, birds, dogs and ducks are also looked after. You can wander around and pet the cows and calves and, for a small donation, feed them fresh greens. It’s near Madhav Baug
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Adinath
Adjacent to Parsvanath Temple, the smaller Adinath has been partially restored over the centuries. With fine carvings on its three bands of sculptures, it’s similar to Khajuraho’s Hindu temples, particularly Vamana. Only the striking black image in the inner sanctum triggers a Jai
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