Travelling to
Jaipur
Rajasthan
Loading…Status: Site damaged by Cyclone Thane (2011); only walls remain
Ruins of an Indo-Roman trading port on the Ariyankuppam river, active around the 1st century BC to 2nd century AD.
Arikamedu was a brick-built harbour town known for stone beads and trade in textiles and pottery with the Roman world. Excavations began in the 1940s, most famously by Mortimer Wheeler. Cyclone Thane in 2011 damaged the site and only walls remain; finds are in the Pondicherry Museum.
Park in Puducherry.
Blue Flag certified beach at Chinna Veerampattinam with lifeguards, washrooms and a marked swimming zone.
Park in Puducherry.
Small government museum in Bharathi Park with Arikamedu Roman finds, Chola and Pallava sculpture, bronzes and French colonial objects.
Old Ganesha temple near the seafront, older than the French settlement, with a gold chariot taken out at Dussehra.
building in India
Neo-Gothic brick basilica (1907) on South Boulevard with rare stained glass; minor basilica since 2011.
French-era botanical garden of about 22 acres with 28 themed plots, a toy train, aquarium and musical fountain.
A 72.5 m fluted tower begun in 1199, standing in a UNESCO-listed complex in Mehrauli. The complex also holds the Iron Pillar and the Alai Darwaza.
A 16th-century gateway from Sher Shah Suri's era on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, notorious as the place where three Mughal princes were shot in 1857.
A black marble platform with an eternal flame marking where Mahatma Gandhi was cremated in 1948, set in lawns by the Yamuna.
Lutyens' 42 m war-memorial arch on Kartavya Path, honouring Indian soldiers who died in WWI and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. Its lawns are a popular evening hangout.
A 200-acre wooded heritage park beside the Qutb complex with about 100 monuments, including Balban's tomb, Jamali Kamali and Rajon ki Baoli.
17th-century ruined town and fort in the Aravallis, famous as India's 'most haunted' site; no entry after sunset.
Ruined Paliwal Brahmin village west of Jaisalmer, abandoned in the 19th century and surrounded by local legend.
Early 8th-century monolithic rock-cut Hindu temple complex near Kangra, facing the Dhauladhar across a temple pool.