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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