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7 Things to Do in the Valley of Flowers, Uttarakhand's UNESCO Meadow of Himalayan Blooms

A UNESCO World Heritage Site in Uttarakhand's Garhwal Himalaya, the Valley of Flowers turns into a carpet of over 500 documented alpine species each monsoon, reached by a trek through Ghangaria.

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7 Things to Do in Kevadia, Home to the World's Tallest Statue

Built around the world's tallest statue and the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River, Kevadia has grown from a dam-construction town into a purpose-built cluster of viewpoints, gardens and eco-tourism activities in Gujarat's Narmada district.

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7 Things to Do in Mandvi, Kutch's Royal Port Town on the Arabian Sea

Once a major shipbuilding port for the Kutch princely state, Mandvi pairs a working wooden shipyard with a beachfront summer palace and one of Gujarat's longest stretches of open coastline.

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7 Things to Do in Sandakphu, the Highest Point in West Bengal

At 3,636 metres along the Singalila Ridge near Darjeeling, Sandakphu is West Bengal's highest point and one of the few places from which a stretch of Himalayan giants, including Kanchenjunga, lines up into the outline locals call the Sleeping Buddha.

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7 Things to Do in Kanha National Park, the Forest Said to Have Inspired The Jungle Book

One of India's best-run tiger reserves, Kanha in Madhya Pradesh pairs sal forest and open meadow with a conservation story built around the Bengal tiger and the hard-ground barasingha, and is widely believed to have shaped the setting of Kipling's Jungle Book.

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7 Things to Do in Nawalgarh, the Rajasthan Town With 600 Painted Havelis

Founded in 1737 by Thakur Nawal Singh, Nawalgarh grew rich on Marwari merchant fortunes that paid for more than 600 frescoed havelis, of which only a handful are restored and open to the public today.

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7 Things to Do in Netarhat, the Hill Station Jharkhand Calls the Queen of Chotanagpur

Roughly 156 kilometres west of Ranchi, Netarhat sits at about 1,100 metres in Jharkhand's Latehar district, a former British-era summer retreat known for pine-covered ridges, sunrise and sunset viewpoints, and a scatter of waterfalls nearby.

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7 Things to Do in Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat's Untouched Sultanate City

An hour from Vadodara, the Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park pairs a hilltop Shakti Peeth temple with the largely intact ruins of a sixteenth-century Gujarat Sultanate capital at its base.

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7 Things to Do in Dholavira, the 5,000-Year-Old Harappan City in the Rann of Kutch

On Khadir island in the Rann of Kutch, Dholavira's excavated ruins reveal one of the Indus Valley Civilization's largest cities, complete with a sophisticated water-harvesting system built for one of India's most arid corners.

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7 Things to Do in Mandawa, Rajasthan's Open-Air Fresco Gallery

Mandawa in Rajasthan's Shekhawati region holds one of India's densest clusters of painted havelis, built by Marwari merchant families between the 18th and early 20th centuries and left largely unrestored.

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7 Things to Do in Bishnupur, Bengal's Terracotta Temple Capital

Bishnupur in West Bengal's Bankura district was the capital of the Malla dynasty, whose 17th-century rulers built a cluster of brick-and-terracotta temples that remain among the finest examples of the region's distinctive architectural style.

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7 Things to Do in Mechuka, the Himalayan Valley Arunachal Pradesh Keeps Mostly to Itself

Set at around 6,000 feet in Arunachal Pradesh's Shi-Yomi district, Mechuka pairs a 400-year-old monastery and a wooden suspension bridge with some of the least-visited high-altitude scenery in the eastern Himalaya.