Top 10 Tourist Destination places in India.List of Top 10 Tourist attractions in India.The famous cities and their spots where you can enjoy your holidays.

Agra is famous for its great monument 'The Taj Mahal',which is built by shah jahan for his love Mumtaz. Agra's Taj Mahal is considered as one of the top 7 wonders of the world.

1.Tajmahal
2.Fatehpur Sikri
3.Jama masjid
4.Buland Darwaza
5.Agra Red Fort

6.Tomb of Akbar

Jaipur is popularly known as Pink city and is a capital of the state of Rajasthan.Jaipur is very famous for tourist places in India.

1.Hawa Mahal
2.Amber Fort
3.Jaigarh Fort
4.Nahargarh Fort
5.City Palace
6.Jantar Mantar
7.Jal Mahal

Goa is famous for its beaches,monuments and the churches in Old Goa.The places to visit in Goa are:

1.Bamboo Huts in Goa

2.Agonda Beach Huts

3.Sree Mangueshi Temple

4.St. Catherine's Cathedral

5.Calangute Beach

6.Anjuna flea market

7.Old Goa

Kerala is famous for its beautiful tourist destinations, especially backwaters. Its also the Land of Spices.Almost a fourth of India's 10,000 plant species are found in the state.

1.Alleppey Backwaters 

2.Munnar:the most beautiful hill station in South India

3.Kumarakom : is located close to Ayemenem village.

4.Thekkady is probably the best place in Kerala to observe wildlife.

5.Cochin offers many attractions for people who are interested in culture and history. Fort Kochi and Mattancherry are the places worth exploring in Kochi.

 Also known as Shahjahanabad .the vibrant, bustling Shahjahanabad, built over a period of 10 years by Emperor Shah Jahan, is very much a separate city.

1.Red Fort

2.Jama Masjid

3.Chandni Chowk

4.Qutab Minar

5.Lodi Gardens

6.India Gate

7.Humayun's Tomb

Mysore is the second-largest city in the state of Karnataka, India.One of the most visited monuments in mysore is the Mysore Palace .

1.Mysore Palace
2.Brindavan Gardens
3.Regional Museum of Natural History
4.Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary
5.St. Philomena's Church
6.Chamundeswari Temple
7.Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary

Hyderabad is famous for the great monument  Charminar and of course the spicy Hyderabadi Biryani.

1.Charminar

2.Golconda Fort

3.Mecca Masjid 

4.Salarjung Museum

5.Ramoji Film City

6.Birla Mandir

Darjeeling is well known for its natural beauty.Monasteries in around Darjeeling generate tremendous interest among visitors.It is noted for its tea industry and the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

1,Kanchenjunga Mountain
2.Darjeeling Toy Train
3.Tiger Hill
4.Chowrasta
5.Ghoom Monastery
6.Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

The Ajanta Caves are 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 or 650 CE.The caves include paintings and sculptures,which considered to be masterpieces of  Buddhist religious art with figures of the Buddha and depictions of the Jataka tales.The caves are located outside the village of Ajantha  in Aurangabad district in  Maharashtra.the Ajanta Caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Ooty is the district capital of the Nilgiris district in the Indian state of Tamilnadu.Its historic sites and natural beauty attract tourists. It is located 80 km north of Coimbatore. Ooty is a popular hill station located in the Nilgiri Hills. Originally occupied by the Todas, the area came under the rule of the East India Company at the end of the 18th century.The town's economy is based on tourism and agriculture.

1.Ooty Botanical Gardens
2.Ooty Lake
3.Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary
4.Nilgiri Mountain Railway
5.Tiger Hill

6.Glenmorgan

If you know any other attracting places ,please let us know through comments:)

 

You can easily change your boarding point and can transfer your railway ticket to any of your family members

For getting these facilities, you can now go to the nearest Railway Reservation Office along with ‘Electronic Reservation Slip’ print out and a original photo identity proof of one of the passengers traveling in the ticket at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure of train.

Please note that reservation offices now can change Boarding Station and Passenger Name against a request from the passenger by filling a form with the travel ticket details.

Now a ticket can be transferred to an other member of your family, like, Father, Mother, Brother, Sister, Son, Daughter, Husband and Wife.The only thing you should do is to bring the ‘Electronic Reservation Slip’ print out along with photo identity card proof in original and  a proof for blood relation desired to be changed like ration card.this type of  request will be processed only once.

IRCTC Chart Preparation Time Indian Railways-When and How many hours before the chart is prepared and when the chart is prepared for morning trains.May people are very confused about when the reservation chart is prepared for departing trains.Here is a simple logic behind the final chart preparation timings of Indian railways.

For the trains starting between 12 pm(After Noon) to 12 am(Mid Night),chart preparation is done 4 to 6 hours before departure of train. 

For the trains starting between 12 am(Mid-Night) to 12 pm(After Noon),charts are prepared on the previous night around 8 to 9 pm.

Suppose you have a train at 1 pm on 1st Jan then the chart will be prepared around 8-9 am (same day).
For the train starting at 6 pm the chart will be prepared at around 2-3 pm(same day).

For the train starting at 10 pm the chart preparation is done at around 6-7pm.
And if you have a train between 12 am(2 Jan)  to 12 pm(2 Jan) ,then the chart preparation is done at around 8 pm(1 Jan).

Now you can easily replace your Sim card (lost/stolen/broken/damaged) from other state .We know how to get a duplicate Sim card without  changing a number in the same state ,but what if we lose the Sim in some other/different state .The Telecom Services(Vodafone,BSNL ,Airtel,TataDocomo,Idea,Reliance,Aircel ) has provided an option to have a Sim card replacement from any state.Now you can get your lost  or damaged Sim replaced in any state besides the state/region you bought the Sim by paying just rupees 25.You can get the other state Sim replacement only at the Head Offices of your service providers in your city.

1.Go to the HEAD OFFICE of the service provider :You can get the head office details of your service provider in your region from your nearest  service provider customer relationship center or you can get it from Google.If there is no head office of your service provider in your region then you need to go to your nearest city where the head office of your network provider is available.

2.Once you reach the head office,ask them about the Sim replacement (tell them that the Sim is of different state). The customer care person will check the availability of your Sim card number:

-if the Sim card number is available then you are required to fill a Sim replacement form and need to submit your photo id proof ,once done they will provide you the Sim card .

-In case if the Sim is not available in the state then they will get the Sim from the state you bought the Sim card .This will take some time (3-4 days). The Sim card will be activated once your documents are verified.

What is Sim replacement: 

You will get a new Sim card  without changing the number (prepaid/postpaid) in case your  Sim card is lost/stolen/deactivated/disabled/blocked.

Process for Sim replacement :

1. Go to your nearest (network provider) customer care center and fill the replacement form to replace your Sim card.

2.Submit a copy of your id proof (the same you submitted when purchasing the Sim) and a copy of your photograph.

3.Also it is good to take a FIR copy in case your Sim card is stolen along with your mobile phone (Not Mandatory).

4.Once the documents are verified they will issue the Sim card or else will mail to your provided address.The Sim card will be activated within 6 hours.

1.Immediately contact Customer Care of your network/Service provider .The service providers like Airtel ,Idea,Reliance,BSNL, Tata Docomo,Vodafone,etc will have a local customer care numbers like 198,369,....

2.When you request for the Sim block, the customer care person will ask some details for verification of the Sim Card Owner.They may ask some questions like:

 3.When the customer care person is satisfied with your answers, he will block your Sim card or block out-going calls for your lost Sim card and suggest you to have a Sim replacement(You can get a new Sim card issued by your network provider without changing the number.) at nearest customer relationship center by providing your id proof and photo copy.Check here how to get sim replacement.

While booking Tatkal train tickets on internet due to slowness of Indian railways Server we are not able to book/get confirmed tatkal tickets oftenly ,as we are well aware of how long it takes to login .We all know that now the Tatkal tickets booking starts at 10.a.m. But most of the time we are not able to login to the website itself when booking tatkal tickets.The IRCTC website is not fast then and takes long time to login.If you have noticed that the IRCTC server will be fine to some extant the moment you login.I have come across with few tips which many follow to book tatkal tickets on internet quickly.

1. Login into IRCTC website 10-15 mins before the tatkal booking starts,because you often won't be able to login to IRCTC at 10 a.m. quickly.

2.Keep navigating to the different screens in the irctc portal after login to avoid session expiration,otherwise you will be logged out automatically.

3.Try Magic Auto Fill created by Amit Agarwal,to save the time filling passengers form.Prior to login just fill in the passenger details in the Magic Auto Fill and drag the button MagicAutoFill to your bookmark ,so then no need to fill passenger list in IRCTC , just click on MagicAutoFill bookmarked button,it will fill the irctc passenger form automatically.View Demo.

4.Be ready with your payment details like credit/debit card,Net banking.

5.Never click on Backspace button or any button in IRCTC twice ,which will log you out of the website.

Hope these tips will help you book your tatkal tickets easily and fastly.

Now it has become easy to track train arrival or departure timings in a particular station.You can easily track train ETA(expected time of arrival) or ETD(expected time of departure) at http://www.trainenquiry.com.Here you can see or check the rain arrival and departures live sitting at home,you can also check the running train live status ,track your train location.

  Go to  http://www.trainenquiry.com. Click on Stations tab and enter the station name for which you want to track the train arrival and departures live.Actually you can check for next 2 and 4 hours.

We all do  telephonic enquiry or go to stations to see the train running status,whether the train is running on time or late.Now you can track the live running train timing online easily.How to track whether a train is running late or right time at http://www.trainenquiry.com/.Just type in your train number to know whether the train is running late or on time.And click on the day for which you want to see the train status.

In the box highlighted in blue ,You can also see the Expected time of arrivals ,Halt time ,or whether the train is running on right time or Late to a particular station.To  Mahabubabad station it is given as ON TIME which says that the train will reach to Mahabubabad station on right time.

The section highlighted in red shows that the train is running late by 44 minutes in TENALI station.

How to Book Tatkal Train Tickets Quickly in IRCTC ? Many of us do search helpful tips to book tatkal train tickets at great ease.Here is another post on IRCTC. IRCTC  Tatkal Tickets are available one day prior to the journey according to the latest rules. For instance on 23rd May 2012 you can book tickets of the 24rd May 2012 scheduled train.

Some times the advanced reservation period may be 2 days instead of 1 day because it is calculated from originating station departure time. So at first find out the originating time of your train. Do refer Tatkal Ticket booking timing revised.

I recommend you to have a trail one day before the booking date, so that you can have overall idea regarding at what time exactly the tatkal quota is being booked totally. For example if you want to book IRCTC ticket on 23rd, then log in on 22nd 10 AM to check details. Of course this will be applicable only for daily trains.

If any train tatkal quota is totally booked at sharp 10:05 AM then technically it is not possible to book ticket via IRCTC. Because by the time you select class and click on Book link and going through all the subsequent pages, the time will be already 5 minutes over. Moreover the website becomes dead slow after 8 AM, no matter even you are having 10 Mbps net connection. So you will end up booking wait listed ticket even though confirmed seat is available at the time of clicking Book link.

The below tips may be useful for successful ticket booking via IRCTC.

In tatkal ticket booking you can book up to four passengers. If you want to book ticket only for one person then entering details may not take much time. But some times entering details for four persons may take lot of time which reduces successful ticket booking chances.

So what to do?

Magic Autofill form developed by Amit Agarwal (owner of the well known tech blog www.labnol.org) is a good solution I will suggest to you. The procedure is clearly mentioned in the above page link itself. Actually here you are filling the form details in advance so that time can be saved.

Tips to improve your chances of booking tatkal tickets quickly:

Some times while you are on IRCTC website you may get the page like Service Unavailable. Just refresh the page, the problem will be solved. Unless you do some action the message Service Unavailable will be there. That’s the reason why I recommend to refresh page.

Don’t click on any option unless the page is fully loaded. Many people in hurry will try to click on the payment Gateway bank during page loading itself. Later you cannot proceed further and not even able to click on the same gateway option because the system thinks that the gateway is already selected. You can do nothing at this stage. The only option left is to log in again and start from the scratch. So wait still the page is fully loaded.

Be familiar with the Captcha image by having a trail. Since it is always in capital letter, you can turn CAPS LOCK on when entering this field. A wrong entry of captcha can lead to a wait listed ticket.

Always try to log in before 10 a.m. (logging in at 09:45 a.m. is recommended). Also try to keep the session active by performing some activity. Otherwise session will get expired (session expiration means if the screen is idle for some time, then you will be automatically logged out and you have to log in again for booking tickets).

While the page is being processing , never click refresh or try to click once again on the same link. This will lead to session expiration. Of course many people know it very well.

While entering source and destination stations, it’s always recommended to enter station codes instead of full station name for quicker booking. So keep your source and destination station codes handy and if possible remember them.

Booking can be possible via Plan My Travel link only because Quick Book is not allowed between 08:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

If your payment is via ATM card then keep your card number and name already stored in a notepad file and just copy paste them. By this way some time can be saved. I think booking via net banking account is quick as compared to ATM payment.

Other way to book Tatkal Tickets:

One more quick way to book Tatkal ticket is booking via IMPS payment gateway. The advantage here is you just need to enter mobile number, MMID and OTP. Also the charge for IMPS is just Rs.5/- for ticket up to Rs.5000/- and Rs.10/- for any ticket amount exceeding Rs.5000/-. A saving of Rs.5/- as compared to booking via net banking or debit card :) . I strongly recommend you to generate OTP (one time password) at least 15 minutes before the transaction so that you can feel cool at the time of entering data on IMPS PG page. OTP will be valid for 1 hour only and that too for only one transaction. Whether the transaction is success or failure the same OTP cannot be used again.

Final Important Tip:While entering input in Plan my Travel enter source, destination codes and select date, ticket type, quota and click on Find Trains button before 10 a.m.. I recommend to do this at sharp 9:58 a.m. (if you do this more before this time then remember to keep the session active). Your desired train will be displayed under List of trains. But never try to click on the class option button like 2A, 3A, or SL before 10 a.m. If you do this and click on Book button, even after 10 AM you will get a message like INTERNET incoming day booking not allowed before 8 AM Tatkal ARP Booking not allowed before 10 AM.

What I want to say is you can click on Find Trains before 10 a.m. but you should click on class of travel (3AC or SL or any other) only after sharp 10 a.m. Hope you got this. I recommend you to experience it practically by having a trail.

How to Check Live Status of Running Trains

 

Do you want to track live train running status to get current online status of running trains? Well, you can any time trace station by station running train status for any train running in a very fastest way.

The Indian Railways operates nearly 10,000 trains everyday and you can use their website – trainenquiry.com – to know the current running status of any train. You can either enter the the name of the train, or the train number if you remember it, and the system will tell you whether that particular train is delayed or running on time. This new website will not only provide the running status of trains but will also help you track the exact location of trains across the country.

There are plenty of new features to appreciate about the new website. You no longer have to remember train numbers – just enter any two station names (like chennai to Ahmedabad) and it will bring all the trains available on that route. The Indian Railways website is using AJAX probably for the first time and thus you get search results as you type which is very handy.

Once you spot your train in the search results, you can learn about the train’s departure time at the previous two stations that the train has crossed, how far are the next two stations on the route and what’s the expected time of arrival at these stops. All these details will help you better plan your visit to the station.

Find below the steps to track your running train status. 

Just enter the train number as highlighted in blue.if you don't know the train number then click the tab "stations" and type the station name,it will give you the arrivals and departures of the station entered.

TRACK RUNNING TRAIN STATUS

If you can see in the above snap once you enter the train number it will give you the train details.I have highlighted the days which tells you the running train status that started on a particular day.Click the day for which you want to track the train status.Once you click it will navigate you to the other screen as follows:

TRACK RUNNING TRAIN BETWEEN TWO STATIONS

The above screen will tell you about the running train next stoppage and previous stoppage of the consecutive days.If you can see the blue highlighted box ,the previous stoppage is TENALI JN ,it means it has crossed TENALI station and the next stop will be VIJAYAWADA,the above descriptions states that the train is running  in between TENALI and VIJAYAWADA.

This icon says that the train is still running and yet to reach the destination station.

 This icon says that the train is not currently running and has reached the   destination station.

 If you want to know the exact position of the train how far it is from VIJAYAWADA or how far it has been to TENALI , then click on a particular section,say i have clicked on OCT 7 section then you will be navigated to the screen will tells you the exact position of the running train.

 TRACK EXACT POSITION OF THE RUNNING TRAIN

The above screen will tell you that how far the train is to a particular station,if you can see the VIJAYAWADA STATION ,it is given as "32kms to go" ,which states that it is 32kms away to VIJAYAWADA station.

TRACK IF THE TRAIN IS RUNNING LATE OR RIGHT TIME

In the box highlighted in blue ,You can also see the Expected time of arrivals ,Halt time ,or whether the train is running on right time or Late to a particular station.To VIJAYAWADA station it is given as ON TIME which says that the train will reach to VIJAYAWADA station on time.

The section highlighted in red shows that the train is running late by 31 minutes in TENALI .

Enjoyed the post then track your train with :). And and and..

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