The
new Bhubaneswar with its modern buildings
and extensive infrastructure perfectly complements
its historic surroundings. With facilities
to cater to every type of visitor, Bhubaneswar
makes an ideal tourist destination.
Cuttack
Cuttack,
the former capital and one of the oldest cities
of Orissa is the administrative headquarters
of the district. The town is situated at the
apex of the delta formed by the rivers Mahanadi
in the North and Kathajodi in the South. It
serves as a convenient base for touring the
various places of interest in the district.
Jeypore
Nature
has showered its bounty on the undivided Koraput
district with untrammelled joy. This district
abounds in meadows, forests, waterfalls, terraced
valleys and darting springs. This land of
abundance is home to Orissa's vast tribal
population. A real paradise for the nature-lover,
Koraput offers an additional benefit to the
visitor of first hand meeting with its ancient
civilization.
Jeypore
is the commercial nerve centre of Koraput
district and has all such facilities to serve
as the convenient base for visiting the places
of interest in and around.
Konark
The
magnificent Sun Temple at Konark is the culmination
of Orissan temple architecture, and one of
the most stunning monuments of religious architecture
in the world. The poet Rabindranath Tagore
said of Konark that 'here the language of
stone surpasses the language of man', and
it is true that the experience of Konark is
impossible to translate into words.
The
massive structure, now in ruins, sits in solitary
splendour surrounded by drifting sand. Today
it is located two kilometers from the sea,
but originally the ocean came almost up to
its base. Until fairly recent times, in fact,
the temple was close enough to the shore to
be used as a navigational point by European
sailors, who referred to it as the 'Black
Pagoda'.
