From the Red Fort, walled old town, and crowded streets and bazaars of Delhi to the holy city of Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges, there is much to see and do in India. In Agra, the famous Taj Mahal and beautifully preserved Agra Fort are architectural glimpses into the past, and the hill station of Shimla offers escape from the heat with a decidedly British flavor.

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For the romantic, the city of Udaipur, also known as the city of lakes or “Venice of the East”, has lovely gardens, the ornate Jagdish Temple, and the Lake Palace which appears to be magically floating on Lake Pichola. Note: The air in urban areas of India is typically smoggy, and can be a bit smelly.

Language: English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language.

Major International Airports Include:

City	Airport	Airport Code	Distance From City
Delhi	Indira Gandhi Int'l	DEL	12 miles W
Chennai (Madras)	Chennai Airport	MAA	11 miles SW
Kolkata (Calcutta)	N S C Bose Int'l	CCU	17 miles NE
Mumbai (Bombay)	Chhatrapati Shivaji Int'l	BOM	19 miles N

For more airport information including availability and cost of transportation to and from the city, rental car availability, airport websites, telephone numbers and more, we recommend the Airport Transit Guide.