Other sights in India
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State Museum
The superbly presented State Museum includes plenty of tableaus with mannequins-in-action depicting different traditional Naga lifestyles plus everyday tools.
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Badrama Wildlife Sanctuary
The Badrama Wildlife Sanctuary, 37km from Sambalpur, shelters elephants, tigers, panthers and bears. It can be closed with no notice in the event of bad weather.
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Jehangir Art Gallery
Jehangir Art Gallery hosts interesting shows by local artists; most works are for sale. Rows of hopeful artists often display their work on the pavement outside.
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Khamir
Khamir, about 5km beyond Bhujodi and 17km from Bhuj, is an umbrella organisation dedicated to preserving and encouraging Kutch handicrafts in all their diversity.
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Geology Museum
The Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology has a small museum that covers local rocks, glaciers and earthquakes. Fossils include a dinosaur egg and stacks of teeth.
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Agnigarh Hill
It might have been Banasura’s fire fortress site. River views are lovely from the top and there’s a snacks bar; statues-in-action all around it vividly illustrate the Usha legend.
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Chandrakant Mandare Museum
Dedicated to actor and artist Chandrakant Mandare (1913–2001), this well-maintained gallery houses stills of his movies as well as his fine paintings and sketches.
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Lahaul & Spiti Tribal Museum
At the south end of town is the moderately interesting Lahaul & Spiti Tribal Museum, with traditional costumes, old dance masks and treasures from local gompas.
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Prachina Bikaner Cultural Centre & Museum
The Prachina Bikaner Cultural Centre & Museum is a well-labelled museum featuring over-the-top costumes, jewellery and a rare glimpse of everyday paraphernalia.
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Buddha Carvings
Once Ladakh’s summer capital, Shey is an attractively green, pond-dappled oasis from which rises a central dry rocky ridge, inscribed with roadside Buddha carvings.
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Ranganatha Temple
Mythically referred to as Kishkinda, the kingdom of the monkey gods, Anegundi retains many of its historic monuments, such as the Ranganatha Temple devoted to Rama.
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Rewa Kund Group Ruins
A pleasant 4km-cycle south of the village Mandu, past Sagar Talao, brings you to two more ruins. Tickets for both should be bought from outside Baz Bahadur’s Palace.
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Bull Temple
Built by Kempegowda in the 16th-century Dravidian style, the Bull Temple contains a huge granite monolith of Nandi and is one of Bengaluru’s most atmospheric temples.
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Parasnath Temple
Behind Chandraprabhu temple is Parasnath Temple, which you enter through a beautifully carved torana (architrave); it has a lovely, brightly painted ceiling.
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Tulsi Manas Temple
The modern marble, sikhara -style Tulsi ManasTemple's walls are engraved with verses and scenes from the Ram Charit Manas, the Hindi version of the Ramayana.
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Archaeological Museum
The archaeological museum at the Lothal site displays fragments of this well-ordered civilisation, such as intricate seals, weights and measures, games and jewellery.
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Bison Lodge
Captain Forsyth named Bison Lodge after a herd of bison he spotted here. It’s now an interesting museum focusing on the history, flora and fauna of the Satpura region.
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Lohagarh, the early 18th-century ‘Iron Fort’, houses a dusty, little-visited museum with Jain sculptures, paintings, weapons and dusty animal trophies.
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Taveli Mahal
These former stables now house the ASI’s Antiquity Gallery, which features artefacts found here including stone slabs with Quranic text dating back to the 15th century.
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Sadar Government Museum
The Umaid Gardens are home to the Sadar Government Museum, which feels frozen in time. The poorly labelled exhibits include weapons and 6th- to 10th-century sculptures.
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Rizong Gompa
Clinging to the walls of a steep, arid amphitheatre, the two old prayer halls of intriguing Rizong Gompa have soot-darkened but highly regarded murals and gilded statues.
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Pinjore (Yadavindra) Gardens
These reconstructed 17th-century Mughal walled gardens are built on seven levels with water features (that sometimes operate). Enjoy panoramic views of the Shivalik hills.
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Sikh Museum
In the main entrance clock tower of the Golden temple, the Sikh Museum vividly shows the grisly history of those Sikhs martyred by the Mughals, the British and Mrs Gandhi.
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Sar-Zung Temple
Slightly downhill, behind the palace remnants, darker and even more atmospheric Sar-Zung Temple hosts another outsized Maitreya statue and a library of wrapped scriptures.
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Dashrath Bhavan
Dashrath Bhavan is a temple approached through a colourful entranceway. The atmosphere inside is peaceful, with musicians playing and orange-clad sadhus reading scriptures.
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