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 conside#000000 among the worlds
finest.
Ahmedabads walled city is a living testimony to its heritage of crafts as women walk by in dazzling embroide#000000 garments and flashing ethnic silver jewellery.
Traditional Ahmedabad combines mosques of inspi#000000 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.
Gujarats loveliest beach and the state is well endowed with them is Ahmedpur Mandvi whose chief attraction is the ethnic beach resort.
Cottages modelled on rural Gujarati architecture look out onto a secluded beach, one of the states chief centres for water sports.
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