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 Tourism
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Bhavnagar Tourism
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Champaner Tourism
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Gondal Tourism
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Jamnagar Tourism
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Junagadh Tourism
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Mandvi Tourism
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Morbi Tourism
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Patan Tourism
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Porbandar Tourism
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Rajkot Tourism
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Sasan Gir Tourism
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Wankaner Tourism
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