Western India

You've just come back from a beach week in Goa, or a fort circuit through Rajasthan's Thar Desert, or a tiger safari in Madhya Pradesh, and you want something on the fridge that isn't just a phone photo. This region's spread of coastline, desert and wildlife gives that impulse plenty to work with.

Goa's design draws on 451 years of Portuguese rule and the Basilica of Bom Jesus, alongside a second magnet for Dudhsagar Falls, a 310-metre cascade straddling the Goa-Karnataka border. Gujarat contributes the Rann of Kutch's white salt desert and its full-moon Rann Utsav festival, Gir National Park's wild Asiatic lions found nowhere else on Earth, the pilgrimage town of Dwarka, and the 182-metre Statue of Unity on the Narmada. Rajasthan's magnets cover the Thar Desert fort circuit — Chittor Fort's Vijay Stambh tower and its own six UNESCO-listed hill forts — plus Jaipur's terracotta-washed Pink City streets.

Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh round things out: Mumbai's Gateway of India and Bollywood studios, Pune's Peshwa-era Shaniwar Wada fort, the Ajanta and Ellora cave temples cut into basalt cliffs, and Madhya Pradesh's Khajuraho carvings alongside Kanha and Bandhavgarh, home to some of the highest wild tiger densities anywhere in the country. Chhattisgarh's Chitrakote Falls, often called the Niagara of India, and Shivaji's fort-building legacy across the Sahyadri range complete the region.

Keep browsing: North East India's living root bridges, East India's temple towns, South India's coastline, and North India's mountain passes, plus souvenirs from further away in the World collection or every Indian state gathered into Indian State Fridge Magnets.