NORTH INDIA

North India is a beautiful place.It is considered to be the most visited part of India due to its magnificent monuments, beautiful palaces, historical locations, religious shrines, wild life, hill stations, mighty rivers and scenic landscapes.

HISTORY OR HERITAGE SITES

There are many empires and dynasties that have ruled parts or all of North India.They also created some most beautiful and amazing structures,like TAJ MAHAL,and many other.some of empires are-
  • Maurya Empire, 326 – 187 BCE
  • Northern Satraps, 1st century BCE to 1st century CE
  • Gupta Empire, during the reign of Samudragupta, c.335 – c.550 CE
  • Empire of Harsha, 606 to 647 CE
  • Pala Empire, 770 to 810 CE
  • Pratihara Empire, mid-7th to the 11th century
  • Delhi Sultanate, 1206–1526
  • Mughal Empire, 1526–1540, then 1555–1857, 
  • Sur Empire 1540–1556
  • Sikh Empire 1799–1849
  • Maratha Empire 1761-1818
  • British Indian Empire 1858–1947

NATURE SITES

The Himalayas and The Thar Desert,is the main tourist attraction place according to nature. The most highly regarded hill destinations of India such as Srinagar, Shimla, Manali, Nainital, Mussoorie, Kausani and Mount Abu. The Himalayan region provides opportunity for adventure sports like mountaineering, trekking, river rafting and skiing and Camel or jeep safaris is famous of the Thar desert.

PILGRIMAGE SITES

NORTH INDIA is also famous for very holiest pilgrimage centres for all religion namely for HINDUS (Varanasi, Haridwar, Allahabad, Char Dham, Vaishno Devi, Rishikesh, Ayodhya, Mathura/Vrindavan, Pushkar, Prayag and seven of the twelve Jyotirlinga sites), for BUDDHISM (BodhGaya, Sarnath and Kushinagar), for SIKHISM (Amritsar and Hemkund), for MUSLIMS (Ajmer and Delhi). 

WILDLIFE PARKS AND RESERVES

North India contain many wildlife parks and reserve.In these parks lots of different types of wild animals live. Some of wildlife parks and reserves are

Corbett National Park: It is India's first National Park, and was designated a Project Tiger Reserve in 1973.
Nanda Devi National Park and Valley of Flowers National Park:These two national parks constitute a biosphere reserve that is in the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves since 2004.
Dachigam National Park:It is home to the hangul (a red deer species, also called the Kashmir stag).
Great Himalayan National Park:Wildlife resident here includes the snow leopard, the Himalayan brown bear and the musk deer.
Desert National Park:Wildlife unique to the region includes the desert fox and the great Indian bustard.
Kanha National Park: The sal and bamboo forests, grassy meadows and ravines of Kanha were the setting for Rudyard Kipling's collection of stories, "The Jungle Book".
Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary:It is the only protected zone for the endangered Ganges and Indus river dolphin
Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary:It is one of the finest bird parks in the world,this sanctuary is also inhabited by sambar, chital, nilgai and boar.
Dudhwa National Park: The animals found in large numbers, are the Indian rhinoceros, elephant, jungle cats, leopard cats, fishing cats, jackals, civets, sloth bears, sambar, otters, crocodiles and chital.
Ranthambhore National Park:launch as tiger saving project.
Kalesar National Park: Kalesar is a sal forest in the Shivalik Hills of eastern Haryana state.

STATES UNDER NORTH INDIA

  1. Jammu and Kashmir
  2. Harayana
  3. Uttar Pradesh
  4. Uttrakhand
  5. Punjab
  6. Delhi 

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