Outlook Traveller Getaways Magazine - Heritage Holidays

In this issue

This guide book explores India’s ancient and glorious heritage across the length and breadth of the country. Within the pages of this book are featured untold tales of eccentric kings, splendid forts and palaces, ancient temple towns, India’s mightiest monuments and abandoned ruins … everything that made our history so extraordinarily rich and colourful.

The travel guide offers:
80 destinations plus over 150 bonus hideaways
An exhaustive accommodation listing with luxury, heritage and budget options
Inside stories, little known facts about well-known places and people from bygone times

The guide covers the much-visited and hugely popular destinations such as Agra, Khajuraho, Jaipur, Udaipur, Pushkar, Ladakh, Kolkata, Ajanta-Ellora, Mysore, Hampi, Madurai and also the less travelled ones like Kapurthala, Karauli, Bastar, Majuli, Tawang, Mandu.

The 80 destinations are spread across the states of J&K, Himachal, Punjab, Delhi, UP, Rajasthan, MP, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, West Bengal, Sikkim, the North-Eastern states of Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and the Union territories of Daman & Diu, and Puducherry.

It also has over 150 additional bonus hideaways in these states, and contains fascinating and little-known tidbits. For instance, read all about the only place where you will find a thousand temples in one city, the world’s largest kitchen, or about the oldest Buddhist sanctuary in the world.

With all the details provided – from getting there and hotels to fares and route guides - this book is extremely accessible to the lay tourist. But most of all, it makes for absorbed reading. This is not boring history, this is India’s fascinating heritage, attractively presented.