Gujarat
Tourism
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 Tourist Interest in Gujarat Museums
in Gujarat
