Chennakesava Temple Somnathpur

The Prasanna Chennakesava Temple at Somnathpur is one of the best preserved monuments from Hoysala period. It was built in 1268 by Somanatha, a General of Narasimha III the Hoysala king.The temple stands in the middle of a rectangular court, approached from the east through a gateway with an open portico. An inscribed slab set up here records Somanatha's benefaction.The temple is made of soap stone which lends itself easily to detailed sculpture.

Archaeological Museum Old Goa

Archaeological Museum is one of the most significant site museum of Archaeological Survey of India which has been functioning since 1964,in the abandoned convent of St Francis Assisi. Old Goa also Known as Velha Goa

Tower of the Church of St. Augustine Goa

This tower, also on the Holy Hill, has four storeys with an arch in each.It is built of laterite and evidence of lime plaster is visible.Colossal in size, nearly 46 m high, this tower was meant to serve as a belfry and formed part of the facede of the Church of St.Augustine, which was facing west. The church is now in ruins. There were eight richly adorned chapels and four althars, and a convent with numerous  cells and artistic columns attached to the church.

Padmanabhapuram Palace

Padmanabhapuram Palace is located in kalkulam on the way to Kanyakumari from Thiruvananthapuram.It was the seat of the Venad dynasty that became the rulers of travancore state through the efforts of the King Martanda Varma in the eighteenth century.

The Palace is also famous for murals and wood works in the interior.Located within a fortified are,roughly square in outline,the buildings inside the palace-complex do not show any well-knit ground-plan. Perhaps its growth was spread over diffrent periods of time, The Thai-kottaram " Mothers palace" being the earliest of the building here.It follows practically the plan of the nalukettus with a courtyard in the centre.Of the several edifices with gabled tiles roofs,the mote noteworthy are the entrance-hall,the council-chambers,the theatre,the puja-mandapa and the stone temple of saravathi with a navarathri-mandapam in front.The paintings are found in a single chamber of the palace on the top floor referred to as Upparikka-malika "Chamber of Chieftain". It is in fact, the family shrine of the king.Since marthanda Varma dedicated his state to Lord Vishnu and rules as his regent,the chief here is none other than the family deity Shri Padmanabhasvami himself who is supposed to be residing in this room.Even though well publicised and rated highly,these paintings are in fact of inferior quality when comapred to the vast of body of mural paintings found elsewhere in Kerala.

The Mattancheri Palace

The Mattancheri palace at Kochi has an excellent location with the panorama of the backwaters on the east and the tall synagogue of the Jews on the south.It was built by the Portuguese in AD 1557 for the use of the Raja of Cochin. A century later, it underwent extensive renovation in the hands of the Dutch.That was why the building was also known as the Dutch palace.

The double-storeyed building with a quadrangular  plan aligned around the palayannur Bhagavati temple in the centre, follows mainly the plan of nalukettus ('four buildings') with a courtyard in the centre, a plan common in the domestic architechure of Kerala. Besides the Bhagavati temple in the centre, there is another temple-complex dedicated to Vishnu and siva to  the South of the palace can also be seen.The entire structural complex is enclosed by a height wall pierced on the east and the west by an entrance

Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary

Located near the coast of Jamnagar at a distance of 12 Km lies a spectacular bird santuary Khijadiya.It is the largest bird sanctuary of Gujarat.Khijadia Bird Sanctuary has an amazingly large number of resident and migratory birds in a relatively small area- particularly during winters. Declared a sanctuary in May 1981, the sanctuary is spread over just 6.05 sq. Km extending on two fresh water lakes

The Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary is divided in two parts,one part is known as Dhunvan and another part is Jambuda,named after two nearby villages.Both the fresh water lakes are separated from each other having no link in between them.The Khijadiya lakes were formed by reclamation bunds which were built during the erstwhile princely  state regime. on one side of the bund fresh water lakes are formed by water which drains from Ruparel and Kalinri rivers. on the other side of the bund, large creeks flowing from the gulf of kutch are located. as the sanctuary is located near narara island, therefore it also has a beautiful coral reef