India

The Modhera village in the Indian state of Gujarat is renowned for its Sun temple situated in the Mehsana district on the river Pushpavati and it was built by King Bhima-I of the Chaulukya dynasty in 1026-27. Being so popular already ...

Originally a tiny townlet, Taipei grew into a significant hub for the export of tea in the 20th century consequently its economic prominence across the globe. When Japan seized and took control of the island in 1884, the city developed quickly ...

Up until the 19th century, the word Cappadocia was oblivious to most of the World. It was understood, perhaps as a religious hotspot in Asia Minor that was cited in the Bible - St Peter's foremost letter is preached to the ...

Concealed among the arid western hillocks of the Hindu Kush, where precipitation is periodic and water is insufficient, is a stripe of cool, shining lakes. They nestle along Afghanistan's prime river - Band-e Amir, at an altitude of just under 9700ft ...

Even hardened travellers lapse into spellbound silence as ocean-going cruise liners, dwarfed by their surroundings to seem like model toys, glide into Sognefjord. The mountains rise almost vertically from the water's edge - sheer walls of strong granitic rock some 3000ft ...

Rhododendrons and camellias grow wild to profusion in the subtropical climate of China's south-western Yunnan province Kunming, the capital, is known as the City of Eternal Spring, and the area is a treasure house of plants and trees. But the forest ...

In an effort to diversify its travel and tourism products, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) recently began offering passengers online medical tourism packages. IRCTC has entered into a pilot agreement with a provider of medical-technical online services that ...

Internet One of the most spectacular festivals celebrated in Kullu Valley is Kullu Dussehra, a well-known International Mega Dussehra festival celebrated in October in the Himachal Pradesh state of northern India. The celebration of Dussehra is eagerly anticipated and celebrated in ...

Silent dawn, silent dusk - no rings, no chimes, not even the sound of frogs or crickets. The panoramic sky above the lofty New Mexico's arid land in the USA is so clear that the Milky Way, the moon and the ...

Ridge upon ridge of deep red sand stretches from horizon to horizon across the Simpson Desert in the dry heart of Australia. In 1845, Charles Sturt, the first European to set eyes on the scene, described how the ridges ran in ...

Land so bereft of spirit that it has been dubbed the 'desert within the desert'. Rolling waves of dunes, some as lofty as 790ft (241m), touch the horizon and lead to still more dunes in an eternal progression. But in the ...

IRCTC, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, has recently developed new pilgrimage travel packages. It has recently unveiled this 10-day journey that would visit Pashupatinath in Nepal as well as places like Ayodhya, Prayagraj, and Varanasi in India. According to ...