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Uttar Pradesh travel guides
31 complete guides covering 352 places in Uttar Pradesh, with honest pacing, maps, sources and advice for travelling with parents.
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- Agra22 placesWhite marble, red sandstone and Mughal gardens: a city built on love, power and…
- Aligarh5 placesA university town built around a ruined fort and a founder's vision: red-brick…
- Ayodhya20 placesWhere the Saryu flows past sacred ghats, and the freshly consecrated Ram Mandir…
- Ballia5 placesA river town on the Ganga and Ghaghra: an oxbow bird sanctuary, a sage's ashram…
- Bithoor8 placesA small Ganga pilgrim town north of Kanpur, where Brahma's legend, Valmiki's…
- Chitrakoot16 placesWhere Rama spent eleven years in exile along the Mandakini river: temples on…
- Chunar7 placesA sandstone fort above a wide bend of the Ganga, Mughal tombs and a stone that…
- Deogarh6 placesA quiet Betwa river village with a Gupta-era Vishnu temple, a hill fort full of…
- Dudhwa12 placesSal forest, wet grassland and swamp deer on the Nepal border: a quiet…
- Gorakhpur12 placesA temple-and-publishing city on the Nepal side of Uttar Pradesh: easy…
- Hardoi5 placesThe Prahlad story's home town, a lake sanctuary for winter birds and a handful…
- Hastinapur7 placesThe Mahabharata's capital as a quiet Ganga-side town: Jain temple complexes…
- Jhansi12 placesA granite hill fort, a queen's palace and the story of 1858, in a calm…
- Kannauj6 placesThe ancient capital of Harsha and India's attar capital: copper stills, old…
- Kanpur10 placesA Ganga-bank industrial city with a heavy 1857 past, a brick Gupta temple on…
- Kushinagar13 placesWhere the Buddha entered Mahaparinirvana: a small pilgrimage town with the…
- Lucknow20 placesNawabi courtyards, grand Imambaras and a food scene that shaped Indian cuisine…
- Mahoba7 placesA former Chandela capital of granite lakes, ruined temples and ballad-singing…
- Mainpuri5 placesA quiet district town on the old Grand Trunk Road branch, known for brass-wire…
- Mathura20 placesSacred ghats, Krishna's birthplace, temple bells at dawn, and lanes where…
- Mirzapur10 placesA quiet Ganga river town between Varanasi and Prayagraj, with calm ghats, a…
- Naimisharanya10 placesA small riverside pilgrimage town on the Gomti, where a circular sacred tank, a…
- Prayagraj20 placesThree rivers merge into one at a sacred confluence; pilgrims sing in the dawn…
- Raebareli5 placesA river-town district headquarters in Awadh, with a Sharqi-era mosque and fort…
- Rampur5 placesA former Nawabi capital where a fort holds a famous manuscript library, a Jama…
- Sarnath20 placesWhere the Buddha shared his first teaching—pilgrimage, museums, monasteries…
- Shravasti11 placesAncient monastery ruins where the Buddha spent many rainy seasons, in a quiet…
- Sonbhadra5 placesUttar Pradesh's far south-east: Kaimur hill forts, a billion-year-old fossil…
- Varanasi22 placesRiver mornings, lamp-lit evenings and old lanes that ask you to slow down…
- Vindhyachal7 placesA Shakti Peeth town on the Ganga where one pilgrimage circuit links a riverside…
- Vrindavan19 placesNarrow lanes, temple bells, and the memory of Krishna: a quiet pilgrimage town…