First-timer city and destination travel guides.
★ Puri · Odisha Puri: The Jagannath Temple Town, a Working Beach, and the Base for Odisha’s Coast A practical guide to Puri — who can enter the Jagannath Temple and where to see its tower if you can’t, the fishing beach at dawn, the great Rath Yatra, and using the town as the base
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★ Konark · Odisha Konark: The Sun Temple Built as a Colossal Stone Chariot A practical guide to the Konark Sun Temple — the 24 carved wheels and seven horses, why the sanctum is sealed with sand, when the light is best on the sculpture, and how to visit from Puri or Bhubaneswar. Written byAshvinee
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★ Bhubaneswar · Odisha Bhubaneswar: The Temple City, the Jain Caves, and Ashoka’s Battlefield A practical guide to Bhubaneswar — the living Lingaraj and the jewel-box Mukteshwara, the rock-cut Udayagiri and Khandagiri caves, Ashoka’s edicts at Dhauli, and using the capital as the gateway to the whole Odisha coast. Written byAshvinee UpdatedSeptember 2026 Reading time9
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Chitrakote Falls travel guide: India’s widest waterfall in Bastar, Chhattisgarh – when it actually runs, how to get there from Raipur, and a simple two-day plan.
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★ Jagdalpur · Chhattisgarh Jagdalpur and the Bastar Haats: Weekly Markets, Bell Metal, and a Dussehra That Runs for Seventy-Five Days A practical guide to Jagdalpur — the base for everything in southern Chhattisgarh, and the town to plan around if you want to see a working village market rather than a craft fair put
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★ Sirpur · Chhattisgarh Sirpur: A Seventh-Century Brick Temple, and a Buried City Still Coming Out of the Ground A practical guide to Sirpur on the Mahanadi — the Laxman Temple, the tilted steps of Surang Tila, the Buddhist monasteries Xuanzang wrote about, and why this is the easiest great sight to reach in Chhattisgarh.
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★ Bhoramdeo · Chhattisgarh Bhoramdeo: Carved Stone Below the Maikal Hills, and Almost Nobody There A practical guide to Bhoramdeo near Kawardha — what the carving actually is, the two other temples in the complex that most visitors walk past, and why the Khajuraho comparison is both useful and misleading. Written byAshvinee UpdatedSeptember 2026 Reading
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★ Kanger Valley · Chhattisgarh Kanger Valley National Park: Limestone Caves, a Stepped Waterfall, and When the Gates Are Actually Open A practical guide to Kanger Valley in Bastar — the three cave systems you can walk into, Tirathgarh Falls, why the park shuts for the monsoon, and how to fit it around a night
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★ Mainpat · Chhattisgarh Mainpat: A Grassland Plateau in the North, and the Tibetan Settlement That Has Been There Sixty Years A practical guide to Mainpat in Surguja — what the plateau actually is, the waterfalls and the bouncing ground at Jaljali, the monastery, and an honest answer on whether it is worth the long
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Belum Caves travel guide: exploring India’s longest cave system open to visitors – stalactites, chambers, how to visit and combining it with Gandikota.
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