Gujarat India Complete Guide 2026: Rann of Kutch, Bhuj, Dholavira, Modhera Sun Temple and Statue of Unity
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Gujarat India Complete Guide 2026: Rann of Kutch, Bhuj, Dholavira, Modhera Sun Temple and Statue of Unity TL;DR I have spent the past several seasons criss-crossing Gujarat by Vande Bharat, hired car and overnight bus, and this guide is my distilled field notebook for 2026. Gujarat is 196,024 square kilometres of contradictions: salt desert and Asiatic lions, Harappan ruins older than the Pyramids and a 182-metre steel statue younger than the iPhone X. Roughly 60 million people speak Gujarati here, the state went dry on 1 May 1960 and never reversed course, and it is the political home base of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who served as Chief Minister from 2001 to 2014. Four UNESCO World Heritage Sites sit inside the state borders, including Dholavira (inscribed 2021), which is the newest Indian listing on the global register. For 2026 the calendar lines up unusually well: Rann Utsav, the tent-city festival on the White Desert, ...