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Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about 1,600 km (990 mi) is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, with an area of 196,024 km 2 (75,685 sq mi); and the ninth-most populous state, with a population of 60.4 million. It is a ...
Pushkar Lake or Pushkar Sarovar is located in the town of Pushkar near Ajmer city in Ajmer district of the Rajasthan state of western India. Pushkar Lake is a sacred lake of the Hindus . The Hindu scriptures describe it as " Tirtha - Guru " [Thirtha Raj]– the perceptor of pilgrimage sites related to a water-body and relate it to the mythology ...
Lists of tourist attractions in Gujarat (8 P) A. Archaeological sites in Gujarat (3 C, 43 P) B. Beaches of Gujarat (1 C, 8 P) C. Caves of Gujarat (11 P)
Gujarat, the seventh largest state in India, is located in the western part of India with a coastline of 1600 km (longest in India). It is the tenth most popular state in the country for tourists with an annual footfall of 18.9 million tourists. [13] Gujarat's natural environment varies from the Great Rann of Kutch to the hills of Saputara.
The Luni is the largest river in the Thar Desert in Northwest India. [1] It originates in the Pushkar valley of the Aravalli Range, near Ajmer, passes through the southeastern portion of the Thar Desert, and ends in the marshy lands of Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, after travelling a distance of 495 km (308 mi).
The mandapam of the Brahma temple. Pushkar is said to have over 500 temples (80 are large, the remainder small); of these, many are ancient ones that were destroyed or desecrated by Muslim depredations during Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's rule (1658–1707) but were rebuilt subsequently; The most important of Pushkar's temples is the Brahma temple, which dates to the 14th century. [3]
Pushkar is a temple town near Ajmer City and headquarters of Pushkar tehsil in the Ajmer district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is situated about 10 km (6.2 mi) northwest of Ajmer and about 150 kilometres (93 mi) southwest of Jaipur . [ 1 ]
The Tourism Corporation of Gujarat, operating under the brand of Gujarat Tourism, is a government undertaking formed in 1978 to promote tourism in the Indian state of Gujarat and guide tourists visiting Gujarat. [1] [2] [3]