Natural features
Kaziranga National Park
Bokakhat, Assam
Home to two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhinoceroses, in grasslands and wetlands by the Brahmaputra River in Assam, a UNESCO World Heritag…
Natural features in India
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Leh and Pangong Lake, Ladakh
Ladakh
Ladakh is a high-altitude desert in the Himalayas with Tibetan Buddhist culture.
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Ranthambore National Park
Rajasthan
One of the best places in the world to see wild tigers, a former royal hunting ground with dry forest, lakes and the ruins of a 10th-century fort.
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Tiger Hill sunrise, Darjeeling
Darjeeling, West Bengal
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…
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Tsomgo (Changu) Lake, Sikkim
Gangtok, Sikkim
A glacial lake at 3,753 m on the road from Gangtok towards the Nathu La pass on the Tibet border.
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Goa beaches and Old Goa
North Goa, Goa
Goa, a Portuguese colony until 1961, combines palm-fringed beaches with whitewashed churches.
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Munnar tea plantations
Munnar, Kerala
A hill station in the Western Ghats of Kerala, surrounded by emerald tea plantations carpeting rolling hills.
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Rann of Kutch
Khavda, Gujarat
A vast white salt desert in Gujarat, which floods in the monsoon and dries to a cracked white plain, magical under a full moon.
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Bhagsu waterfall, McLeod Ganj
Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh
A waterfall in the hills above the village of Bhagsu, about 2 km from McLeod Ganj.
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Coorg (Kodagu) coffee hills
Madikeri, Karnataka
Kodagu (Coorg) is a misty hill region of coffee and spice plantations in Karnataka.