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Goa Science Centre & Planetarium
Kids and families will enjoy the Goa Science Centre & Planetarium with an outdoor park, hands-on interactive displays, 3-D movies and a planetarium.
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Dai Halima Mosque
Behind Dada Hari Ni Vav, the 16th-century Dai Halima Mosque contains the mausoleum of a royal midwife named Halima, with nice jali (carved lattice) screens.
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Abbi Falls
A spectacular sight after the rainy season, these 21.3m-high falls can pack a punch. It’s ₹250 for a return autorickshaw, including stop off at Raja’s Tombs.
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Barton Museum
Located beneath the Gandhi Smriti Museum, this dusty but interesting collection contains religious carvings, betel-nut cutters, and a skeleton in a cupboard.
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Karanji Lake Nature Park
Next to the zoo, this nature park is the place to spy on various bird species, including herons, rose-ringed parakeets, painted storks and many butterflies.
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Jagdamba Mata Temple
Half a kilometre down the road from Khajjiar meadow, an enormous, recently erected 25m-high state of Shiva towers over the little Jagdamba Mata Temple.
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Kothari’s Patwa
The first of the five sections of Patwa-ki-Haveli is opened as the privately owned Kothari’s Patwa Haveli Museum, which richly evokes 19th-century life.
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Pinewood Hotel
Centrally located Pinewood Hotel is a 1920s tea-growers retreat, which is particularly representative of colonial-era architecture and looks great at night.
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Park Entry
Bryant Park, landscaped and stocked by the British officer after whom it’s named, is pretty, and usually busy with both tourists and canoodling couples.
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Sri Sarada Devi Temple
Within the Ramakrishna Mission compound on the Hooghly riverbank, several smaller shrines include the Sri Sarada Devi Temple entombing the gurus wife.
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Allahabad Museum
This extensive museum in the grounds of a pleasant park has archaeological and Nehru family items, modern paintings, miniatures and ancient sculptures.
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Shillong Golf Course
Walk 15 minutes northeast of Ward’s Lake to visit the rolling meadows of Shillong Golf Course, bordered by pine trees and fronted by a pretty clubhouse.
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VM North Gate
Day-tme entry tickets to the park and Victoria Memorial museum are sold at both north and south gates. No access to the sound and light show from here.
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Parasnath Temple
Behind Chandraprabhu temple is Parasnath Temple , which you enter through a beautifully carved torana (architrave); it has a lovely, brightly painted ceiling.
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Rajagopuram
The first of the temples seven gopurams , the Rajagopuram, was added to the 20 older ones in 1987, and is one of Asias tallest temple towers at 73m high.
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Ram Ghat
The most central and popular of Ujjain’s river ghats is best visited at dawn or dusk when the devout chime cymbals and light candles at the water’s edge.
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Dadha Heritage Museum
The small Dadha Heritage Museum contains coins and Jain and Hindu manuscripts, paintings and silver, bronze and copper sculptures, from many parts of India.
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Anandpur Sahib Fort
Behind the Kesgarh Sahib, a broad paved path climbs the hillside to the small Anandpur Sahib fort, which affords glorious views over a sea of gurdwara domes.
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Yadavindra Gardens
These reconstructed 17th-century Mughal walled gardens are built on seven levels with water features (that sometimes operate) and grand views towards the Shivalik hills.
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Sikh Museum
In the main entrance clock tower of the Golden temple, the Sikh Museum vividly shows the grisly history of those Sikhs martyred by the Mughals, the British and Mrs Gandhi.
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