Ahmedabad: A well developed commercial city where camels still traipse its main streets, Ahmedabad grinds to a halt during the siesta hours from noon to 4 p.m.. It contains relics of its grand Mughal past and fine art and textile museums.

Bangalore: An attractive, efficient city with a well-planned grid of tree-lined boulevards famous gardens. India's "Silicon Valley" is burgeoning computer industry, Bangalore is the country's main centre for scientific and technological research.

Baroda (Vadodara): Baroda the former princely capital is a stately city of Gothic palaces, parks and museums.

Calcutta: The city offers unexpected charms with a unique and compelling mixture of British relics. It is the action packed centre of the exuberant Bengali culture. Literature, politics and visual and performing arts thrive as the city's ruling passions.

Chandigarh: This union territory sandwiched between Haryana and Punjab is probably one of the best laid out and systematically planned city in India. Known for it's lakes, museum as well as rock gardens, this place is a good get away.

Chennai (Madras): As a gateway to Tamil Nadu, Madras, now called Chennai, offers relative comfort, good cuisine, and refined charm to travellers embarking on a tour through the state's temple heartland. The tropical seaside capital is full of commercial bustle.

New Delhi: Completed at the tail end of the British Raj in 1931, Delhi was a capital inherited by India's new leaders 16 years later. Delhi has a host of monuments like the Qutab Minar, Lotus Temple, Red Fort, Old Fort and Jamma Masjid. Delhi can be a rather deceptive introduction to India- with tis build-up-urban sprawl, large influx of foreign tourists and it's rich and powerful socialites- bits historic sights merit a stay of at least four or five days.

Hyderabad: With a skyline distinguished by slender minarets, a sweep of the eye revels Hyderabad's magnificent medieval Islamic heritage along with mosques and peeling nineteenth-century courtly mansions.

Jaipur: The "Pink City" of India, Jaipur is nestled amid the craggy Aravalli Hills. The city is famous for it's sight concentrated within the old city in and around the City Place complex, which includes Jal Mahal, Hawa Mahal, and City Palace Amber Fort etc... Jaipur is a shopper's paradise with a variety of things to buy ranging from enamelled blue pottery to exquisite jewellery and gems, block printed fabrics to dhurrie/rugs.

Mumbai (Bombay): The most flamboyant and cosmopolitan city, with it's fortune barons, chic socialites, movie magnates, street-smart hustlers and above, all, its diverse mixture of races and traditions. Known for the Gateway of India, Sassoon Docks, and Afghan Memorial Church of St. John the Evangelist as well as its beaches and busy market places, Mumbai is a centre with gleaming sky scrappers and office towers.

Pune: Is a laid back city and witnesses a lot of tourist as its is the center for the Osho Commune Poona has a massive student population because of the many colleges in this young and hip city.