My Wish list: Places to go in India before I die

Oct 26

My Wish list: Places to go in India before I die

East or west, India is the best! So I have decided that before going out of India for a vacation I will first cover as much of India as I can… SO here is the list of places I want to visit before I die:

Ladakh (Tibetan script: ལ་དྭགས་; Wylie: la-dwags, Ladakhi: Hindi: लद्दाख़, Urdu: لدّاخ, Hindustani pronunciation: Neolithic times. [ləˈdaːx]; “land of high passes”) renowned for its remote mountain beauty and culture, it is sometimes called “Little Tibet”. Rock carvings found in many parts of Ladakh showing that the area has been inhabited from [lad̪ɑks];
The Andaman Islands (Hindi: अण्डमान द्वीप समूह, pronounced Tamil: அந்தமான் தீவுகள்) are a group of archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal, and are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India. [əɳɖəˈmɑːn ˈdʋiːp səˈmuːɦ]
Jaisalmer (Hindi: जैसलमेर) nicknamed “The Golden City”, is a town in the Indian state of Rajasthan. The town stands on a ridge of yellowish sandstone, crowned by a fort, which contains the palace and several ornate Jain temples.
Ranthambore National Park is one of the largest and most famous national parks in northern India. It is situated in Sawai Madhopur district of southeastern Rajasthan, about 130 km from Jaipur, which is also the nearest airport. The nearest town and railway station is at Sawai Madhopur, about 11 km away.
Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park, Nestled high in West Himalaya, is renowned for its meadows of endemic alpine flowers and outstanding natural beauty.
Konark Sun Temple is a 13th-century Sun Temple (also known as the Black Pagoda), at Konark, in Orissa. It was constructed from oxidizing and weathered ferruginous sandstone Khajuraho (Hindi: खजुराहो) temples, constructed with spiral superstructures, adhere to a northern Indian shikhara temple style and often to a Panchayatana plan or layout. The external curvature and carvings of the temples depict humans, human bodies, and the changes that occur in human bodies, as well as facts of life. Some 10% of the carvings contain sexual themes; those reportedly do not show deities, they show sexual activities between people. The rest depict the everyday life of the common Indian of the time when the carvings were made, and of various activities of other beings.
Jim Corbett National Park—named after the hunter turned conservationist Jim Corbett who played a key role in its establishment—is the oldest national park in India. The park was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park. Situated in Nainital district of Uttarakhand, the park acts as a protected area for the critically endangered
Bengal tiger of India, the secure survival of which is the main objective of Project Tiger, an Indian wildlife protection initiative.
The Kashmir valley or Vale of Kashmir is a valley between Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. It is around 135 km long and 32 km wide, formed by the Jhelum River. It was called as “Paradise on Earth” by Jahangir.
Sikkim (Nepali: सिक्किम, Tibetan: འབྲས་ལྗོངས་,’bras ljongs;Denzong) is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. It is the least populous state in India and the second-smallest in area after Goa.
Arunachal Pradesh (Hindi: अरुणाचल प्रदेश, pronounced state of India. Arunachal Pradesh borders with the Indian state of Assam to the south and Nagaland to the southeast.[ərʊˈɳaːtʃəl prəˈdeːʃ] ) is the easternmost