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:
» Ahmedabad Tourism
» Bhavnagar Tourism
» Champaner Tourism
» Gondal Tourism
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