Itinerary
- Assam: Kaziranga National Park or Namdapha National Park
- Sikkim: Trekking from Pemayangtze to Dzongri
- West Bengal: Sunderbans Wildlife Sanctuary or Jaldhapara Wildlife Sanctuary
- West Bengal: Bishnupur/ Vishnupur: +Shyama Raya temple (1643), Keshta Raya temple (1655)
- Ladakh: +Leh: Palace (163#), Spitok monastery (14##), +Alchi monastery (11##), Lamayuru monastery (10##), Trekking
- Kashmir: Srinagar, anskar's +Phugtal monastery (10##)
- Himachal Pradesh: Sarahan's +Bhimakali temple (11##), Key monastery, Tabo monastery, Dhankar's Pin Valley National Park, Trekking in Pin Valley or Trekking to Parvati Valley or Trekking in the Kinnaur region or Trekking in the Sacred Valley of Spiti to Chandra Tal lake
- Uttaranchal: Valley of Flowers National Park, Corbett Tiger Reserve, Rajaji National Park, Govind Wildlife Sanctuary, Gangotri's Trekking over the Garhwal hills to the source of the Ganges
- Punjab: Amritsar's ++Harimandir Sahib/ Golden temple (1601), Chandigarh's +Capital complex including LeCorbusier's High Court (1952) and Cactus garden (largest in Asia) +Manali & Kulu Valley
- Uttar Pradesh: +Lucknow: Tomb of Saadat Ali Khan, Tomb of Khurshid Zadi, Bara Imambara (17##), Qaiser Bagh palace (185#);
- Uttar Pradesh: +Sarnath: monastery complex, +Dhamekh stupa (4##, the lion capital of the Ashoka column is at the museum), +Sarnath Buddha of 5th c, Museum (+Ashoka's Pillar of the Four Lions of 240 BC)
- Bihar: +Pataliputra (7kms from Patna),
- Bihar: +Bodh Gaya/ Bodhgaya/ Buddhgaya's +Mahabodhi Buddhist temple (5## AD) with carving on the railing from 1st c BC, Barabar caves, Vishnupad
- Bihar: +Nalanda monastery (7th-12th c) and temple 3 (5## AD) and university
- Madhya Pradesh: +Mandu/Mandogarh: +Hindola Mahal (149#), +Jahaz Mahal (149#), Shah's tomb (1440), caves of Bagh
- Madhya Pradesh: ++Sanchi: ++Great Stupa (2nd c BC) with gates (35 BC): ++southern gate (oldest, Buddha's miracle, crowned by a wheel of law), +eastern gate (young Gautama leaving his father's place), +western gate (seven incarnations of the Buddha and the Buddha preaching his first sermon); +Stupa 2 (2nd c BC) with surrounding +stone balustrade; +Stupa 3 (2nd c BC) with only one gate; +Ashoka Pillar (pillar #10) near the southern gate of the Great Stupa (the capital is in the museum); ruins of a Gupta temple (4th c AD), one of the earliest in India
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