Ditch that foreign trip! Here are all the reasons why you totally must pack your bags and travel in India first!

1.

This gravity-defying scene in Mahabalipuram!

Photograph: Niranjan Vaidya

2.

Acres and acres of green landscape atop the Himalayas!

Photograph: Deepak Patil

3.

The history! (Tomb of Sher Shah Suri, Bihar)

Photograph: Rajesh Patidar

4.

The winter sun bathing the Himalayas :-)

Photograph: Deepak Patil

5.

The serene Brahmaputra River (Guwahati, Assam)

Photograph: Swagato

6.

Cherrapunji in Meghalaya: the wettest place on earth (well not technically, but you know what we mean).

Photograph: Swagato

7.

This cosy cottage in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh

Photograph: Satyendra Chauhan

8.

This scene in Uttarakhand! Whew!

Photograph: Vishal Sharma

9.

Nathang Valley in Sikkim

Photograph: Shiladitya Mukherjee

10.

And the breathtaking Western Ghats!

Photograph: M Imtiyaz Ahmed

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This is the 21st part of an ongoing series.

You can see all the published photographs here!

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