Central Gujarat - region in Gujarat, India

Central Gujarat is in India.

Cities

• Ahmedabad 📍 — Manchester of the East, commercial capital of Gujarat, home of Mahatma Gandhi’s Ashram.

• Anand 📍 (The Milk City) — the administrative centre of Anand District.

• Dabhoi 📍 — site of major Jain pilgrimage

• Karamsad 📍 — home of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who was popularly known as Iron Man of India.

• Khambhat (Cambay) — former port town at the bay of Khambhat.

• Kheda 📍 (Kaira) — town located on the banks of the rivers "Vatrak" and "Shedhi". From here Gandhi launched a campaign against British taxes.

• Nadiad 📍 — a city where the Santaram Mandir (Hindu temple) is located.

• Vadodara 📍 (Baroda) — Cultured City, Oxford of Gujarat.

Other destinations

• Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, 22.483161°, 73.525876°. an historical archaeological park and one of India's UNESCO World Heritage site

Understand

Central Gujarat is the home of the industrial cities like Ahmedabad and Vadodara (Baroda). Ahmedabad is known as the Manchester of the East, while Vadodara is known as the Oxford of Gujarat.

Get in

By plane

• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (SVPIA) (IATA: AMD) airport is in the North Zone of Ahmedabad. Ahmedabad is the only international airport in Gujarat with regular flights to and from London, New York, Chicago, Singapore, Muscat, Kuwait, Doha (Qatar), Sharjah and Dubai. Domestic flights connect to Mumbai (Bombay), Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Indore and Kolkata (Calcutta).
• Vadodara Airport is a major airport in Gujarat with daily flights to Delhi and Mumbai; and hopping flights to Bangalore (Bengaluru), Hyderabad, and Kolkata.

By road

Most of the highways that connect Gujarat with the rest of India goes through this region.

• From Delhi, Agra and other places in the Plains: Take the National Highway 48 (NH 48).
• From Mumbai, Jaipur, Jodhpur and other places in Western India: Take the National Highway 48 (NH 48).
• From Indore, Bhopal and other places in Central India: Take the National Highway 47 (NH 47).

By train

There are trains from and to Mumbai (500 km) and New Delhi (1000 km) and other big cities of India several times a day going to Ahmedabad and Vadodara.

Get around

As in the rest of Gujarat, most people in this region travel by private buses or by taxi, although getting around by train is possible. Ahmedabad and Vadodara are big stations in the Indian Railways Network.

See

• The Calico Museum of Textiles, Sarabhai Foundation, Opp. Underbridge, Shahibag, Ahmedabad, +91 79 22865995, info@calicomuseum.com. Th-Tu 10:30 to 12:30 and 14:30 to 17:00 (no entry after 11:00 in morning). Entry restricted to 30 visitors – 15 visitors on the basis of first-come-first-served and 15 by group booking. Free
• Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Indology Museum, R Gujrat University, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad. Tu-Su 10:30 to 17:30, closed on public holidays. The museum covers a wide variety of topics from Buddhism, Jainism and its darshans, grammar, tantra and poetics to Vedas, agama to the different branches of India philosophy. It is learnt that this museum has the largest collection of Jain scripts which come around 75, 000 manuscripts with 500 illustrated versions and 45,000 printed books. Free
• Sabarmati Ashram (Mahatma Gandhi Ashram), Ashram Road, Ahmedabad, +91 79 27557277, admin@gandhiashramsabarmati.org. Daily 08:00 to 19:00 including Sundays and holidays. Free

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Go next

• Daman — famous for the beaches, although most people arrive in this region for drinking alcohol.