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Delhi Travel Guide
 Delhi
Travel Guide
Today, the city is a curious blend of the modern and traditional,
skyscrapers, beautiful gardens and wide tree-lined avenues perpetuate the Mughal
passion of landscaping and architectural excellence. More important, however,
Delhi blends within its folds the great cultural variety of India; an unceasing
range of activity, a million ways of saying 'You are Welcome'.
Agra
Travel Guide
Agra is the one of the prominent destinations of the World Tourism
map with three heritage monuments - The Taj Mahal, Red Fort & Fatehpur Sikri.
It is more just a dacadent city of graveyards and stones, but it is a vibrant
centre of Culture, Art and Religious philosphies that have enriched mankind and
shaped humen thought over centuries.
Jaipur
Travel Guide
Jaipur is 260 km from Delhi and 240 km from Agra and forms the
most chosen tourism golden triangle of Delhi, Agra and Jaipur. It a bustling capital
city and a business centre with all the trapping of modern metropolis but yet
flavoured strongly with an age-old charm that never fails to surprise a traveller.
Jaisalmer
Travel Guide
The city has an interesting legend associated with it, according
to which, lord Krishna- the head of Yadav clan foretold Arjuna that a remote descendent
of the Yadav clan would build his kingdom atop the Trikuta Hill, His prophecy
was fulfilled in 1156 AD.
Jodhpur
Travel Guide
The old city is fenced by 10 km long wall with eight Gates leading
out of it. The new city is outside the walled city. Rao Jodha, a chief of the
Rathore clan, founded the city in 1459 and it is named after him.
Khajuraho
Travel Guide
Khajuraho, the temple city of central India, is famous throughout
the world for its exquisitely carved temples in stones. Thousands of visitors
and tourists from all over the world flock together to envisage this immortal
saga of Hindu art and culture engraved in stone by shilpies (stone craftsmen)
a millenia ago.
Udaipur
Travel Guide
A vision in white drenched in romance and beauty, Udaipur is
a fascinating blend of sights sounds and experience-an inspiration for the imagination
of poets, painters and writen.
Varanasi
Travel Guide
Welcome at "THE HOLY CITY VARANASI". Varanasi, or Banaras, (also
known as Kashi) is one of the oldest living cities in the world. Varanasi`s Prominence
in Hindu mythology is virtually unrivalled. Mark Twain, the English author and
literateur, who was enthralled by the legend and sanctity of Banaras, once wrote
: "Banaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend
and looks twice as old as all of them put together"
Pushkar
Travel Guide
Ajmer is also the base for visiting Pushkar (11 km.), the abode
of Lord Brahma, lying to its west with a temple and a picturesque lake. The Pushkar
Lake is a sacred spot for Hindus. During the month of Kartik (Oct./Nov.), devotes
throng in large numbers here to take a dip in the sacred lake.
Ranthambhore
Travel Guide
Lying on the main Delhi Mumbai railway line Sawai Madhopur is
the gateway to the world renowned Ranthambhar National Park-the famous tigers
reserve, just 12 km away from here.
Bharatpur
Travel Guide
The legends say that the place was named as Bharatpur after the
name of Bharat, the brother of Lord Rama, whose other brother Laxman was worshipped
as the family deity of the Bharatpur rulers, Laxman's name is engraved onthe state
arms and the seals. The city and the fort have been believed to be founded by
Rustam, a Jat of Sogariya clan. Maharaja Surajmal took over from Khemkaran, the
son of Rustam and established the empire. He fortified the city by building a
massive wall around the city.
Chennai
Travel Guide
Chennai is a city where the traditional and the modern blend
in life everywhere. From traditional vegetarian fair to fast foods, from nine-yard
sarees to the latest in fashion, from ancient temple architecture to modern high-rise
- with Indo-Saracenic and Victorian as stops along the way - from classical music
and dance to discos throbbing to heady beats, Chennai has them all and many more
vivid contrasts that are a pleasant surprise.
Mumbai
Travel Guide
Mumbai was given by Portuguese as dowry to Charles II of England
when he married Catherine. The group of seven island was leased to the East India
Company who offered freedom of business and religion to persons who came and settled
here.
Goa
Travel Guide
It is Goa where you can have a vacation of a lifetime. Goa is
a lush green paradise edged on the one side by the wooden foothills of the Sahyadri
range and on the other by the Arabian Sea.
Cochin(Ernakulam)
Travel Guide
Ernakulam is the green commercial capital of Kerala with one
of the finest natural harbours in the world. From here, ships set sail for foreign
ports with pepper, sea food, rubber and coir. From times immemorial, Arabs, Chinese,
Dutch, British and Portuguese seafarers followed the sea route to Cochin and left
their impression in the town. The harbour is the nucleus around which Cochin has
grown to become the Queen of the Arabian Sea.
Kolkata
Travel Guide
Calcutta, on-the-Hooghly, retains the aura of days long gone,
weaving the past and the present, the intense and the funloving into a charming
fabric. Home to four Nobel laureates - Ronald Ross, Rabindranath Tagore, Mother
Teresa and Amartya Sen, Calcutta is the nerve centre of intellect and human values,
where many modern movements began in art, cinema and theatre, science and industry.
Kovalam
Travel Guide
Along the 600 kilometre length of the Kerala coast, there are
many sandy beaches, rocky promontories and coconut palms. The fishing village
of Kovalam lies 10 kilometres south of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala.
Kovalam is the only beach resort of Kerala, and is very popular with the Indian
as well as international tourists.
Madurai
Travel Guide
Madurai's origin and name emerge from a misty and lovely legend.
In a forest near a lotus pond, Indra, King of Gods, Worshipped Lord Siva as a
Swayambu Lingam. At this hallowed spot, the Pandyan monarch Kulasekhara built
a great temple and clearing the forest, he created a lotus- shaped city around
the temple.
Ooty
Travel Guide
This famous hill station is at the junction of Tamil Nadu, Kerala
and Karnataka, three southern states of India. It was founded by the Britishers,
in the early part of the 19th century, to serve as summer headquarters for the
government of Madras.
Darjeeling
Travel Guide
Darjeeling - the name is derived from the Tibetian word 'Dorje'
which means the precious stone or ecclesiastical sceptre, which is emblematic
of the thunderbolt of Indra, and 'ling' - a place, hence the land of the thunderbolt.
Bangalore
Travel Guide
An air-conditioned city, a garden city, the Silicon Valley of
India, the fastest developing city in the world, these are some of the attributes
used to describe this beautiful city which has a lot to offer you.
Mysore
Travel Guide
Mysore is more than palaces, parks and temples … the exotic fragrance
of Mysore Jasmine… the melodious strains of the Veena… the
rich aroma of filter coffee… traditional carvings on fragrant
sandalwood, rosewood and ivory.
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