Indore: India's cleanest city

Awarded best Indian city seven years running, Indore remains also one of the country's top gastronomic centers.

The center, repeatedly named India's cleanest city, is comfortably explored by auto-rickshaw.

The Rajwada Palace, royal residence of the Holkar sovereigns, features a seven-story facade that blends Mughal, Maratha, and French architectural elements.

A short walk away, the Lal Bagh Palace, built in European style by the Holkar sovereigns in the late nineteenth century, today hosts a museum with original furnishings from the colonial period.

Continuing, you visit Sarafa Bazaar, a jewelers' market that transforms every evening into a bustling street food market until late night.

As evening falls, Chappan Dukan, a street with fifty-six food stalls, offers specialties of Madhya Pradesh in a single pedestrian street.

Indore has won the title of India's cleanest city for seven consecutive years in a national government survey, thanks to a waste management program considered a model for other Indian cities.

Sarafa Bazaar leads a double life daily: a jewelry market by day, a culinary marketplace from dusk through late night, a unique phenomenon in India's urban landscape.