Discover India’s Exotic Destinations

India is a diverse, magical and exotic country that has so much to offer and we all have so much to see and feel. I love travelling through this country that I call my home. I doubt if this journey will ever end. During this journey of India, I have personally been to so many unique places and I thought it would be appropriate if I shared this information with you through this article.

Below is a list of exotic places that I have personally visited in India. Each label links to my travel blog posts about that place.
Note: The list has been sorted first by ‘State/Union Territory’ and then by the name of the ‘Place’.

Generic – Runs Across States

Arabian Sea	Bay of Bengal	Cauvery (Kaveri River)	East Coast	Eastern Ghats
Eastern Himalayas	Ganges (Ganga)	Himalayas	Indian Ocean	Indian Railways
Indo-Chinese Border	Kamasutra	Mahatma Gandhi	My Solo All India Motorcycle Journey	National Highway 17
Neela Kurinji Flower	NH 5	North East India	Panchabootha Sthala	Sahyadri Hills
Tata Nano Superdrive	Western Ghats	Western Himalayas

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Andaman Sea	Baratang Island	Beach No. 7	Butler Bay Beach	Cellular Jail
Corbyn’s Cove	Elephant Beach	Ferar Beach	Havelock Island	Hut Bay
Jolly Buoy Island	Kalapathar Beach	Kalapathar Limestone Caves	Kalapathar Village	Little Andaman
Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park	North Bay	Port Blair	Radhanagar Beach	Ritchie’s Archipelago
ROSS Island	Vijaynagar Beach	Viper Island	Wandoor	White Surf Falls

Andhra Pradesh

Banjara Hills	Charminar	Godavari Bridge (Godavari River Bridge)	Golconda Fort (Golkonda)	Hyderabad
Kailashgiri	Makkah Masjid	Ramakrishna Beach	Rishikonda Beach	Submarine Museum
Vijayawada	Vishakhapatnam (Vizag)

Bihar

Golghar

Mahatma Gandhi Setu

Patna

Patna University

Chhattisgarh

Gaurav Path

Ghadi Chowk

Raigarh

Raipur

Daman and Diu

Diu

Goa

Baga	Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary	Calangute	Dudhsagar Falls	Mandovi River
Mollem National Park	North Goa	Panjim

Gujarat

Ahmedabad	Gir National Park	Junagadh	Kutch	Little Rann of Kutch
Sabarmati Ashram	Sasan Gir	Velavadar National Park

Himachal Pradesh

Great Himalayan National Park	Jalori Pass	Kangra	Kinnaur	Kinner Kailash
Lahaul	Nagrota Surian	Pong Dam Wetlands	Recong Peo	Spiti

Jammu and Kashmir

Khardung La

Ladakh

Leh

Jharkhand

Jagannathpur Temple

Pahadi Mandir

Ranchi

Karnataka

Agumbe	Aihole	Baba Budangiri	Badami	Bandipur National Park
Bangalore(Bangalore International Airport)	Barachukki Falls	Bheemeshwari	Biligiri Ranganatha Hills (BR Hills)	Bylakuppe
Chandrayana Betta	Chickballapur	Chickmagalur	Coorg	Devbagh
Dubare	Gaganachukki Falls	Gangavali Bridge (Gangavali River)	Gokarna	Hampi
Hebbe Falls	Hogenakkal Falls	Honey Valley Resort	Hoskote Lake	Inam Dattatreya Baba Budan Swamy Dargah
Irpu Falls	Jog Falls	Jogigundi Falls	Kabbinakad	Kakkabe
Kalahatti Falls	Kali River	Karavalli Coast	Karwar	Kemmangundi
Kodachadri Hills	Kodagu	Kollur	Kollur Mookambika Temple	Kukke Subramanya
Kumaraparvatha	Mahabaleshwar Temple	Mangalore	Maravanthe Beach	Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary
Mulaiyangiri	Murudeshwar	Nagarhole National Park	Nalnad Palace	Nandi Hills
National Highway 206	Netrani Island	Nilakandi Falls	OM Beach	Pattadakkal
Sadashivgad Hill	Sharavati River (Sharavati River Bridge)	Sharavati River Valley View	Sheshparvatha	Shivanasamudra Falls
Skandagiri	Someshwar	Someshwar Wildlife Sanctuary	Somwarpet	Sowparnika River
Talakad	Thadiyendamol Peak	Tungabhadra	Upunda Bridge (Upunda River)	Vanakebe Falls
Vijaynagar Empire	Virajpet	Yaana Hills

Kerala

Alappuzha	Banasura Sagar Dam	Chembra Estate	Chembra Peak	Cherai (Cherai Beach Resorts)
Cochin/Kochi (Cochin Port)	Eravikulam National Park	Kalpetta	Meppady	Munnar
Palakkad Gap	Parambikulam Tiger Reserve	Periakkanal Tea Estate	Periyar Tiger Reserve	Sairandhri
Silent Valley National Park	Soochipara Falls	Thekkady	Wayanad (Wynad)	Willingdon Island

Lakshadweep Islands

Kadmat Island

Kalpeni Island

Kavaratti Island

Lacadives

Lakshadweep Sea

Madhya Pradesh

Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve	Bhopal	Bheem Betika	Ken Gharial Sanctuary	Khajuraho
Moti Masjid	Narmada River (Narmada River Bridge)	Pench Tiger Reserve	Umaria

Maharashtra

Aurangabad	Bibi Ka Maqbara (Dakkhani Taj) (Taj of Deccan)	Daulatabad Fort	Diksha Bhoomi	Kasturchand Park
Khandala	Lonavala	Mumbai	Mumbai – Pune Expressway	Nagpur (City of Oranges)
Panch Chakki	Pune	Sinhagad	Zero Mile Marker

Meghalaya

Shillong

Orissa

Bhubaneshwar	Bindu Sagar	Chandipur	Cuttack	Daya River
Dhaulagiri (Dhauli Hill)	Kalinga Battlefield	Kalinga Dynasty	Khurda	Lingaraj Temple
Mahanadi River (Mahanadi River Bridge)	Rajarani Temple

Pondicherry

Aurobindo Ashram

Auroville

Matrimandir

Pondicherry(Puducherry)

Punjab

Amritsar

Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib)

Jallianwala Bagh

Wagah Border

Rajasthan

Aravallis	Desert National Park	Jaisalmer	Great Indian Thar Desert	Mount Abu
Ranthambore National Park	Udaipur

Sikkim

Banjhakri Falls	Bulbulay	East Sikkim	Gangtok	Gurudongmar Lake
Himalayan Zoological Park	Kangchendzonga	Kyongnosla Alpine Sanctuary/ Kyongnosla	Lachung	Lingdum Monastery/ Ranka Monastery
Nathulla Pass/ Nathu La	North Sikkim	Pelling	Pemayangtze Monastery	Royal Demazong Resort
Shingba Rhododendron Sanctuary	Tsomgo (Changu) Lake	West Sikkim	Yumthang Valley

Tamil Nadu

Agaya Gangai Falls/Akash Ganga Falls	Anaimalai	Arapaleeswarar Temple	Aruvankadu	Avalanche Dam
Bellikal	Bungalow on the Beach	Chennai	Chidambaram	Coonoor
Courtallam	East Coast Road	Emerald Dam	Fort Dansborg	Hogenakkal Falls
Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary	Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve	Kallidaikurichi	Kanyakumari	Kalhatti Falls
Karaiyar	Ketty	Kodaikanal	Kodanad Estate/ Kodanad View Point	Kolli Hills/Kolli Malai
Kotagiri	Lovedale	MM Hills	Madurai	Mahabalipuram  (Mammallapuram)
Male Mahadeshwara Temple	Masila Falls	Masilamani Nathar Temple	Mettupalayam	Murugan Idli Shop
Namakkal	Natarajar Temple	Nilgiris (Nilgiri Biosphere)	Ooty (Ootacamund)/ Udagamandalam	Papanasam
Rasipuram	Red Hills	Salem	Shore Temple	Sigur Ghat Road
Suchindram	Thamarabarani River	Tharangambadi (Tranquebar)	Tirunelveli	Vellore
Vellore Institute of Technology	Wellington

Uttar Pradesh

Agra

Benaras (Kashi) (Varanasi)

Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary (Keoladeo National Park)

Taj Mahal

Uttarakhand

Corbett National Park

Mussoorie

West Bengal

Darjeeling	Kolkata	Sevok	Singalila Trek	Sunderbans Tiger Reserve
Teesta River Railway Bridge

P.S. I aim to update this list as often as possible. Though this method is time consuming, it ranks over the tag cloud as it doesn’t goof up the search results and reduce the bounce rate of the blog. I hope you all find this article useful. If you have any suggestions to make this better, please feel free to share it through the comments below.

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