Pune boast a prestigious university(styling itself as the 'Oxford of the East'), and is a major industrial centre. For many western visitors, the city's major attraction is the Osho Commune International, better known as the ashram of Bhagwan Rajneesh. To her credit, it has housed the important pilgrimage centre for the Hindus - Puri, the 13th century magic carved on sand stone - Konark, the largest brackish water lake of the continent - Chilika, the wonder green land of the white tigers - Nandankanan, and many more caves, Chaityas, Stupas.temples, forts andpalaces. Statistics says most of the visitors frequent this place for Lord Jagannath and the blue bay. Popularly known as the "Temple City of India", it is the seat of 'Tribhubaneshwar’ or 'Lord Lingaraj', the Lord of the Three Worlds – the God Shiva.


Bhubaneshwar - konark:
The skyline of old Bhubaneshwar has temple spires extending tall fingers into the clouds with saffron pennants announcing the all-encompassing presence of Hinduism. New Bhubaneshwar with its modern buildings and extensive infrastructure perfectly blends into the religious ambience.
The beautiful sun temple built in the 13th century in honour of the sun god, contains exquisite carvings, life sized lions and elephants, colossal figures of warriors on horses, scenes of battle and chase - all carved with great imagination and skill, testify to the high standard of ancient indian art and engineering skill and visit the finest temples - lingaraj, rajarani, mukteswar, brahmeswar and parasurameswar. These temples are some of the best specimens of the orissan temple architecture, visit Udaigiri Caves famous dhauli hills.