A 13th-century temple to the sun god Surya, built in the shape of a giant stone chariot with 24 carved wheels drawn by seven horses, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The carvings are extraordinary.
Nearby, Puri has the Jagannath Temple (Hindus only) and a beach, and Bhubaneswar has hundreds of temples. The three form Odisha's 'golden triangle'.
A grand white marble building of 1921 in memory of Queen Victoria, set in gardens, with a museum of the British period and the history of Kolkata.
One of the oldest living cities in the world and Hinduism's holiest city, on the Ganges, where pilgrims bathe on stone steps (ghats) and cremations t…
A hilltop 11 km from Darjeeling, at 2,590 m, famous for the view at sunrise as the first light turns the snowy summit of Kangchenjunga, the world's t…
A narrow-gauge mountain railway, opened in 1881, that winds up from the plains to Darjeeling on tracks only 2 feet wide, through loops and zigzags, a…
Stay in any of Darjeeling's cheap guesthouses, but treat yourself to tea in one of the old colonial hotels.
One of Darjeeling's oldest tea gardens, founded in 1854, on the hillside just below the town.
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