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Jod Gumbad
In the southwest of the city, off Bagalkot Rd, stand the twin Jod Gumbad tombs with handsome bulbous domes. An Adil Shahi general and his spiritual adviser, Abdul Razzaq Qadiri, are buried here.
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Jehangirs Palace
The huge red-sandstone Jehangir’s Palace was probably built by Akbar for his son Jehangir. It blends Indian and Central Asian architectural styles, a reminder of the Mughals’ Afghani cultural roots.
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Jawaharlal Nehru State Museum
Tops among the few sights in Itanagar is the decent but shoddily curated Jawaharlal Nehru State Museum, with the brightly coloured gompa of the Centre for Buddhist Culture set in the gardens nearby.
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Ramykund Pool
Further along the main road, past the trailhead, you’ll find the access roads for Duchess Falls, the two beauty points known as Reechgarh and Astachal, and a small, crystal-clear pool called Ramykund .
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Wankhar Entomology Museum
The memorably named Wankhar Entomology Museum is a remarkable one-room display of pinned butterflies, gruesome rhinoceros beetles and incredible stick-insects in the home of the original collector.
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Mulbekh Chamba
Mulbekh is best known for this 8m-high rock-carved Maitreya-Buddha relief that’s over 1000 years old. Its right by the roadside albeit with the lower section half shielded from view by a tiny gompa.
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Raj Mahal
If you stumble upon the caretaker at this 17th Century palace, he may open the painted rooms where Rama, Krishna and Orchha royalty wrestle, hunt, fight and dance across the walls and ceilings.
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Lalguan Mahadev Temple
A further 600m west from Chausath Yogini, down a track and across a couple of fields (just ask the locals), is the sandstone-and-granite Lalguan Mahadev Temple (AD 900), a small ruined shrine to Shiva.
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Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary
Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary was declared primarily to preserve wild elephants and elephant habitat. If you’re lucky you might also see leopard, deer, mugger crocodiles and over 100 species of birds.
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Clocktower
A useful monument from which to get your bearings in the city centre.
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Cultural Museum
Upstairs in the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives is a fascinating cultural museum with statues, old Tibetan artefacts and books, and some astonishing three-dimensional mandalas in wood and sand.
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Cave Passageway
To the right of the glittery Krishna Temple , at the town’s entrance, is a fake cave passageway where you walk past a long line of slightly moving tableaux depicting scenes from Krishna’s life.
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Apsara Vihar
On the other side of Jaistambha, about 1km past Pandav Caves, is the trailhead for Apsara Vihar, a pool underneath a small waterfall, which is the best of Pachmarhi’s natural pools for swimming.
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Birla Academy of Art & Culture
This multi-storey gallery displays frequently changing exhibitions both from contemporary artists and from its vast collection encompassing all Indian styles back to some classic medieval work.
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Astachal Cave
Further along the main road, past the trailhead, you’ll find the access roads for Duchess Falls, the two beauty points known as Reechgarh and Astachal , and a small, crystal-clear pool called Ramykund.
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Hemis Gompa Museum
Hemis monastery has an extensive museum with some very precious religious treasures mixed in with spurious tiger skins, skull vessels, swords, a bra-shaped wooden cup-case and a stuffed ‘vulture pup’.
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Gomptimata Beach
Two kilometres west of Nagoa Beach begins the sandy, 2.5km sweep of Gomptimata Beach. This is often empty, except on busy weekends, but it gets big waves – you need to be a strong swimmer here.
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Queen’s Bath
South of the Royal Centre you’ll find various temples and elaborate waterworks, including the Queen’s Bath, deceptively plain on the outside but amazing within, with its Indo-Islamic architecture.
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Chatarbhuj Mandir
You’ll pass a 9th-century Vishnu shrine known as Chatarbhuj Mandir before reaching the fifth gate, Hathiya Paur, now the entrance to the palace grounds (as the sixth gate, Hawa Gate, no longer exists).
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Cheluvanarayana Temple
Life in the devout Hindu town of Melkote, about 50km north of Mysore, revolves around the 12th-century Cheluvanarayana Temple, with its rose-coloured gopuram (gateway tower) and ornately carved pillars.
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