Western City Highlights
- 4 hours
- 2 languages
- Private tour
- Mobile ticket
Highlights
The tour focuses on the places like City Museum, Utensils Museum & a local market of traditional apparels and accessories.
Inclusions
What's included
- Air-conditioned vehicle
Itinerary
City museum is a museum designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier. It was named Museum of Knowledge during design stage and was originally a part of a large complex of Cultural Centre of Ahmedabad. The design also included a exhibition area for theatre, but out of whole plan only museum was built. Its foundation stone was laid on 9 April 1954. Housed in Sansakar Kendra is a city museum depicting history, art, culture, textile, antiquity and architecture of Ahmedabad and also to nurture and restore the ethos, pride and value of Ahmedabad. Another Patang Kite Museum is there which includes a collection of kites, photographs, and other artifacts.
Sarkhej Roza is a pre-cursor to a Mughal period in a true amalgamation of Islamic, Hindu and Jain styles. The dargah of Sheikh Ahmed Ganj Baksh Khattu a Su• saint and advisor to Sultan Ahmed Shah is housed in this complex. The construction of Sarkhej Roza (mausoleum -1445 A.D.) and the Mosque (1451 A.D.) were commissioned by the reigning monarch Muhammad shah and completed by his successor Qutubud–Din- Ahmed Shah in the memory of the saint. Sultan Mahmud Begada completed the complex by excavating a central water tank and adding a number of small pavilions and a small private mosque. Mehmud Begada also built a mausoleum for himself and his family where his son Muzzaffar II and queen Rajabai were buried.
Vishala prides itself on its presentation of Indian culture and tradition in its village-like environment with its museum of old utensils. Vechaar (Vishalla Environmental Centre for Heritage of Art, Architecture And Research) a unique museum built-in 1981 displaying a precious collection of utensils. It is an effort to cherish and preserve the rich cultural heritage and rare artistic skills of our craftsmen. The utensils display exhibits pieces from thousand years old to present times that has evolved over years of history according to our needs and environment. The range varies from a ground jug to stainless steel and glass utensils, metal utensils like brass, copper, bronze, zinc and german silver.
The night street market filled with a number of shops selling local handicraft items and Indian intricacies. It is well known for local traditional Gujarati textiles and jewelry in white metal. It has items like handicrafts, cane, and wooden items.
Cancellation
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Opp. Sidi Saiyad Mosque
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- The House of MG
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Ahmedabad
- Its from-price is 55% below the median of the 152 experiences we list in Ahmedabad.
- It is shorter than most of them.
About Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad, on the Sabarmati River in Gujarat, is a historic merchant and textile city of carved wooden houses, mosques and Gandhi's ashram.
Ahmedabad was founded in 1411 by Sultan Ahmad Shah on the banks of the Sabarmati, and its walled old city is listed by UNESCO. Its pols, tight clusters of homes around shared courtyards, have carved wooden fronts. The Jama Masjid, the Sidi Saiyyed Mosque with its lattice window carved as a tree, and the Teen Darwaza gateway show the Indo-Islamic style of the sultanate.
Top-ranked sights in Ahmedabad: Sabarmati Ashram, Adalaj Stepwell (Adalaj ni Vav), Sidi Saiyyed Mosque.
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