Sights in Bhubaneswar
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Raja Rani Mandir
This temple, built around 1100 and surrounded by manicured gardens, is famous for its ornate deul (temple sanctuary) and tower. Around the compass points are pairs of statues representing eight dikpalas (guardians) who protect the temple. Between them, nymphs, embracing couples, elephants and lions peer from niches and decorate the pillars. The name of the temple isn’t for a particular king and queen, but is the name of the stone used in the temple’s construction.
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Regional Science Centre
Kids will love this parkland museum with its giant dinosaurs. Included in the admission is a 30-minute movie screened hourly. Other treats are hands-on demonstrations of the laws of physics and displays on astronomy and insects. You may have the whole place to yourself if a school group isn’t there.
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State Museum
This museum boasts Orissa’s best collection of rare palm-leaf manuscripts, traditional and folk musical instruments, Bronze Age tools, an armoury and a display of Orissan tribal anthropology. Don’t miss the salvaged colonial gravestone on the front lawn.
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Museum of Tribal Arts & Artefacts
For anyone considering a visit to the tribal areas, this museum, off National Hwy 5 (NH5), is recommended. Dress, ornaments, weapons, household implements and musical instruments are displayed.
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Udayagiri & Khandagiri Caves
Six kilometres west of the city centre are two hills riddled with rock-cut shelters. Many are ornately carved and thought to have been chiselled out for Jain ascetics in the 1st century BC.
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Orissa Modern Art Gallery
Housing a high standard of contemporary art by local artists, this small gallery also has prints and originals for sale.
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Pathani Samanta Planetarium
The interesting Pathani Samanta Planetarium features hour-long 'out-of-this-world' shows.
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