Delhi

Located within Red Fort's Naubat Khana, this museum documents the 1947 Partition of British India through personal testimonies, photographs, documents, and everyday objects from displaced families.

Feroz Shah Kotla is the ruined citadel of Firozabad, the fifth city of Delhi. The complex includes a 13-metre Ashokan Pillar (3rd century BCE) and the Jami Masjid, alongside elevated views over the adjacent cricket ground that bears the fort's name.

The 17th-century Mughal fortress in Old Delhi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the venue for India's Independence Day address by the Prime Minister. Its massive red sandstone walls enclose palaces, audience halls, gardens, and museums across 254 acres.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Qutub Minar is a 72.5-metre-tall victory tower built in 1192–1220, the tallest brick minaret in the world. The surrounding archaeological complex includes the earliest mosque in India and the mysterious iron pillar that has resisted rust for over 1,600 years.

A 42-metre-high sandstone war memorial arch on Rajpath, designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1931 to commemorate the 70,000 Indian soldiers who died in World War I and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. It is one of Delhi's most iconic landmarks.

A Bahá'í House of Worship completed in 1986, shaped like a lotus flower with 27 free-standing marble-clad petals. Open to people of all faiths, it has won numerous architectural awards and attracts over 4 million visitors annually.

The official residence of the President of India, a 340-room Lutyens-era palace completed in 1929. Spread over 130 hectares including the Mughal Gardens, it is one of the largest presidential residences in the world.

Part of the Rashtrapati Bhavan estate, these 15-acre terraced gardens — now officially called Amrit Udyan — open to the public for a few weeks each spring. They feature over 150 varieties of roses, tulips, and seasonal flowers arranged in Mughal char-bagh geometry.

The southern minaret of Jama Masjid, one of only a few minarets in India open to tourists. The 130-step spiral staircase rewards climbers with a 360-degree panorama of Old Delhi's rooftops and beyond.

India's largest mosque, built by Shah Jahan between 1644 and 1656 with a courtyard that can hold 25,000 worshippers. Constructed of red sandstone and white marble, it stands opposite the Red Fort in Old Delhi.

A massive Hindu temple complex on the Yamuna bank, completed in 2005, dedicated to Bhagwan Swaminarayan. The central monument is carved from Rajasthani pink sandstone and Italian Carrara marble with no structural steel, following traditional Vastu and Pancharatra Shastra design.

The Partition Museum at the Dara Shikoh Library documents the 1947 Partition of India through personal testimonies, photographs, letters and objects donated by families on both sides of the border. The small but emotionally powerful collection gives human scale to one of the 20th century's largest mass migrations.

A classic Delhi experience — weaving through the impossibly narrow lanes of Old Delhi's bazaars on a cycle rickshaw. Drivers navigate Chandni Chowk's chaos, giving riders an eye-level view of the street life, food stalls, and historic havelis.

The commercial heart of New Delhi, a vast circular colonnaded marketplace designed by Robert Tor Russell in the 1930s. Its concentric rings of white Georgian-style buildings house brands, restaurants, cinemas, and the Central Park with its giant Indian flag.

India's largest museum, housing over 200,000 artefacts spanning five millennia—from Indus Valley relics to Mughal miniatures and Chola bronzes. Located on Janpath near India Gate, it is the country's foremost repository of art, archaeology, and decorative arts.

An Old Delhi Food Walk is a guided culinary expedition through the gullies of Chandni Chowk — sampling chaat, paranthas, kebabs, jalebi and rabri from stalls that have operated for generations. Guides navigate the narrow lanes, providing historical context alongside each bite.

A centuries-old neighbourhood radiating from the Nizamuddin Dargah shrine, where narrow lanes lead past Sufi hospices, flower sellers, kebab shops, and the graves of poets and nobles. The area around the dargah retains an atmosphere of medieval Delhi.

One of the oldest and busiest markets in Delhi, laid out by Shah Jahan's daughter Jahanara Begum in 1650 as a moonlit canal-flanked avenue. Today it is a sensory overload of spices, textiles, electronics, and street food stretching from Red Fort to Fatehpuri Masjid.

A self-guided culinary trail through the lanes of Chandni Chowk, sampling street foods that have been perfected over generations — from crispy jalebis at century-old shops to the legendary parathas of Paranthe Wali Gali.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site built in 1570, this is the first garden tomb on the Indian subcontinent and the direct architectural precursor to the Taj Mahal. Set in 30 acres of restored Mughal char-bagh gardens, it houses the tomb of the second Mughal emperor, Humayun.