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.
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:
Places of Interest in Gujarat:
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Ahmedabad Travel
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Bhavnagar Travel
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Champaner Travel
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Gondal Travel
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Jamnagar Travel
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Junagadh Travel
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Mandvi Travel
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Morbi Travel
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Patan Travel
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Porbandar Travel
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Rajkot Travel
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Sasan Gir Travel
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Wankaner Travel
