Tourist Destinations in West India
  
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.
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