Popular travel destinations in India

City of the Taj Mahal — the crown jewel of Mughal India on the Yamuna.

India's first UNESCO World Heritage City — Gandhi's Sabarmati, sultanate mosques and the l...

Venice of the East — houseboats, palm-fringed canals and the emerald backwaters of Kerala.

City of the Golden Temple — Sikhism's holiest shrine, the world's largest free kitchen, an...

India's coral archipelago in the Bay of Bengal — white-sand beaches, wreck-clear dive wate...

Gateway to Ajanta and Ellora — the rock-cut heart of the Deccan, now Chhatrapati Sambhajin...

India's Garden City and tech capital — parks, palaces, filter coffee and the country's bes...

India's first planned city — Le Corbusier's grid of gardens, concrete and calm.

Gateway to South India — temples, Marina sands and Carnatic music on the Coromandel Coast.

The Scotland of India — misty coffee hills, the source of the Kaveri, and the proud homela...

Queen of the Hills — the toy train, the tea gardens, and Kanchenjunga at dawn.

Eight cities in one — Mughal forts, imperial avenues, and legendary street food.

Portuguese island of forts, sea-cave shrines and quiet beaches off the Gujarat coast.

Sikkim's hillside capital — monasteries, momos and Kanchenjunga views along the eastern Hi...

Temple town and laid-back beaches — the Atmalinga shrine and Karnataka's quieter answer to...

The boulder-strewn capital of Vijayanagara — a lost empire in stone on the Tungabhadra.

Gateway to the Gods — where the Ganges leaves the mountains and India comes to bathe.

City of Pearls and Nizams — Qutb Shahi grandeur, biryani, and a booming tech capital in on...

The Pink City — Rajasthan's grand planned capital of forts, palaces and bazaars

The Golden City — a sandcastle fortress rising out of the Thar, still lived in after nine...

India's oldest national park — tiger country in the Ramganga valley of the Kumaon foothill...

The Blue City of Marwar — Mehrangarh's ramparts rising over an indigo maze at the edge of...

A thousand-year-old open-air gallery of Chandela stone — India's finest temple sculpture i...

Queen of the Arabian Sea — where Chinese fishing nets, colonial churches and Kerala backwa...

Princess of Hill Stations — a misty, star-shaped lake town high in the Palani Hills.

The City of Joy — colonial grandeur, Bengali culture and the goddess Durga on the banks of...

Crescent beaches, a candy-striped lighthouse and Ayurveda by the Arabian Sea, just south o...

Land of high passes — a Himalayan cold desert of turquoise lakes, whitewashed monasteries...

City of the Nawabs — Awadhi grace, grand imambaras and the world's kindest kebabs.

Himalayan resort town where the Beas, the cedar forests and the high passes meet.

India's maximum city — Gateway of India, Marine Drive and Bollywood on the Arabian Sea.

Kerala's tea country — rolling green hills, misty ridges and the highest peak in South Ind...

Queen of the Hills — colonial promenades, cloud-wrapped ridges and Himalayan views above t...

The Lake District of India — a Kumaoni hill station wrapped around an emerald mountain lak...

Sun, sand and susegad — India's beach-party capital wrapped in Portuguese heritage.

Queen of Hill Stations — misty tea slopes, a UNESCO toy train and cool Nilgiri air.

France by the Bay of Bengal — a pastel colonial quarter, a spiritual township and long ope...

Cultural capital of Maharashtra — Peshwa heritage, hill forts and the "Oxford of the East"...

Temple town and beach on the Bay of Bengal — home of Lord Jagannath and the Rath Yatra.

Tigers among the ruins — Rajasthan's great dry-forest reserve around a thousand-year-old f...

Yoga Capital of the World — where the Ganges leaves the Himalayas and the mountains begin.

Queen of the Hills — the former summer capital of British India, wrapped in pine, mist and...

The home of Sai Baba — Maharashtra's great pilgrim town on the Godavari plain.

India's quieter coast — long white beaches, Portuguese heritage and the Western Ghats at y...

A cold desert in the sky — ancient monasteries, moonscape villages and Himalayan silence b...

Gateway to Tirumala — India's greatest pilgrimage and the abode of Lord Venkateswara.

The City of Lakes — Mewar's romance of palaces, water and Aravalli hills.

The cave shrine of the Mother Goddess — a 5,200-foot pilgrimage into the Trikuta hills abo...

India's living spiritual heart on the banks of the sacred Ganga

Kerala's cliff-edge beach town — red laterite bluffs, a holy shore and mineral springs abo...