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Gujarat Travel Guide
The most convenient entry point into Gujarat is through the metropolis of
Ahmedabad. The city contains some very fine museums, the Calico
Museum of Textiles being considered among the world’s finest. Ahmedabad’s
walled city is a living testimony to its heritage of crafts as women walk by
in dazzling embroidered garments and flashing ethnic silver jewellery.
Traditional Ahmedabad combines mosques of inspired workmanship, wooden Jain
temples, unique stone stepwells and houses with ornately carved wooden
balconies and window screens.
Modern Ahmedabad, just across the
River Sabarmati spanned by four bridges, is a showpiece of contemporary
architecture with designs by Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn and the best known
Indian architects. Ahmedabad is a convenient base for a number of
excursions, Modhera being the best known. 106 km away, this is one of the
very few sun temples in the country.
Palitana, 215 km
away, is a hilltop place of pilgrimage for Jains. 863 temples of all sizes
crowd the hilll which has to be approached on foot. Stone and marble spires
with their rich detail of carving make for Palitana’s very special
appeal. Portuguese rule in India included the territories of Goa,
Daman
and
Diu, the last two lying within the state of Gujarat.
Gujarat’s loveliest beach – and the state is well endowed with
them – is
Ahmedpur Mandvi whose chief attraction is the ethnic
beach resort. Cottages modelled on rural Gujarati architecture look out onto
a secluded beach, one of the state’s chief centres for water sports.
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