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 world’s
finest.
Ahmedabad’s 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.
Gujarat’s 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 state’s chief centres for water sports.
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