Gujarat Travel Itinerary

After travelling across some of the states of India, this time we planned to tour state of Gujarat on April 2014. We wanted to cover whatever little possible in 10 days and we chalked out a plan after a lot of research.  Hotel bookings and a vehicle for entire trip was booked 2 months in advance. We started from Bangalore on Day 1 and reached Vadodara by 09:30 A.M.

After touring the city on the first day we visited palace, museum, and garden among other sites. On the second day with Vadodara as base location we did full day tour of world heritage city Champaner and Pavagadh. On third day we moved to Ahmedabad and on that day we covered various heritage monuments like mosques, step-well and a fort.  

On fourth day we started from Ahmedabad with end destination as temple at Ambaji. On the way we covered various heritage monuments like step-well at Adalaj and temple at Shamalaji. On day five we reached Rajkot while en-route covering step-well at Patan and Sun Temple at Modhera. Sixth day we left Rajkot for Somnath. It was exciting day as we covered palaces at Gondal and fort at Junagadh. 

Next day after visiting the temple at Somnath we moved to Diu for full day tour. On eight day we reached wild life sanctuary Gir. The afternoon was most exciting 4 hour lion safari and we could also spot lions in the jungle.

Day	Start From	Stay At	Sightseeing
Day 1	Bangalore	Vadodara	Vadodara
Day 2		Vadodara	Champaner Pavagadh Halol
Day 3	Vadodara	Ahmedabad	Ahmedabad
Day4	Ahmadabad	Ambaji	Adalaj Shamalaji Ambaji
Day 5	Ambaji	Rajkot	Patan Modhera
Day 6	Rajkot	Somnath	Rajkot Gondal Junagadh
Day 7	Somnath	Diu	Somnath Diu
Day 8	Diu	Gir	Gir
Day 9	Gir	Bhavnagar	Sihor
Day 10	Bhavnagar		Bhavnagar Lothal

Next day evening we reached Bhavnagar on the way we visited Sihor. On the final day we visited Indus Valley civilization at Lothal and reached Ahmedabad. In the evening we boarded the train back to Bangalore. It was exiting trip with family which had piece of heritage monuments, beaches, temples, mosques, garden, shopping and jungle safari. 

We will cover each of these above places in detail in subsequent posts.