Where to go in India: neighborhood breakdowns, Indian Railways Vande Bharat Express transit links, and daily budgets in INR (₹).
A city of seven historic imperial capitals layered over 1,000 years, Delhi contrasts the spice-scented Mughal lanes and red-sandstone Jama Masjid of 17th-century Old Delhi (Shahjahanabad) with the leafy boulevards, Lutyens bungalows, and UNESCO garden tombs of New Delhi—linked by one of the world's cleanest, most modern metro systems.
Reached in just 100 minutes from New Delhi on the 160 km/h Gatimaan Express train, Mughal imperial capital Agra is home to three UNESCO World Heritage masterpieces: the luminous white Makrana marble Taj Mahal, the red-sandstone Agra Fort, and Emperor Akbar's abandoned city of Fatehpur Sikri.
Founded in 1727 by astronomer-king Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, Rajasthan's terracotta 'Pink City' of Jaipur dazzles with hilltop Rajput forts, block-printed textiles, and emerald cutting—and links southward by train or flight to the romantic marble lake palaces of Udaipur.
One of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities (3,000+ years), Varanasi curves along a crescent bend of the sacred River Ganges where 84 stone riverfront steps (ghats) host dawn pilgrim baths, silk weavers, and the hypnotic brass-lamp Ganga Aarti ceremony every evening.
Tucked between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats mountains in tropical South India, Kerala offers a serene, lush, tout-free counterpoint to the northern plains—combining colonial Fort Kochi, 1,600-meter Munnar tea hills, and palm-fringed Alleppey houseboat lagoons.
Linked by the scenic Konkan Railway (Vande Bharat / Tejas Express) and 1-hour flights, India's financial and cinema powerhouse Mumbai (with its Victorian Gothic UNESCO skyline and Art Deco Marine Drive) pairs effortlessly with the whitewashed Portuguese churches and palm beaches of Goa.
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