Each of these places has a hoard of tourist attractions that promise to thoroughly enchant you during your tours to Gujarat, West India. Gujarat has quite a few wildlife sanctuaries and national parks such as the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary that is home to the Asiatic Lion and the Wild Ass Sanctuary in the Rann of Kutch among others.

The colorful collage that forms the Gujarat culture is a blend of traditions and customs followed by races, settlers as well as conquerors who invaded this region in the yesteryears. The festivals, crafts, folk music, folk dances, specialty cuisine all add up to form the vibrant Gujarat. Gujarat in West India is known for its fairs and festivals such as Janamashtamai, Makar Sankranti, Navaratri and Diwali that are celebrated with lots of enthusiasm and pomp by the Gujaratis.

Gujarat has a special significance in Indian political history, as it was birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and the main center from where he launched his Satyagraha movements.

The Gujaratis, the people of Gujarat, are found all over the state. These people trace their lineage from the people originally known as Gurjars. They are believed to have come to India with the Huns and while passing through Punjab, settled in Gujarat. Gujaratis were highly influenced by the cultural waves from the mainland and accepted the monarchies that ruled over them. Various Hindu traditions like Shavism and Vaishnavism which sprang upon the mainland were imbibed by Gujarat which in turn developed its own galaxy of saints and devotees and its own art and culture. The successive waves of immigration were absorbed in the society that was fast evolving and today the word Gujarati does not seem to suggest any definite association with a particular stock, a tribe of immigrants or a specific group of people.

The Aryans were the first people to come from the north who either conquered or drove away the Bhils, the traditional rulers of Gujarat. Apart from these two distinct classes, a third class of people known as 'Kolis' are equally important and occupy an intermediate social position between the Aryans and the Bhils. Aryans are now commonly recognised as Hindus. The immigration during the medieval period brought Islam and Zoroastrianism to Gujarat and initiated the growth of a multi-religious society.

The peninsula of Kathiawar is named after the Kathis who came to Saurashtra at the close of the fourteenth century. Their origin is not fully known but it is possible that they were driven southwards by the Muslim invaders. 'Khachar' and 'Chotila' were the most important seats of the Kathis. Worshippers of the Sun, they were essentially nomadic and had developed, among other pastoral occupations, the art of horse-breeding. Successive waves of immigrants from other parts of India have led to a superimposition of different communities and cultures in Kathiawar. The powerful royal families, which conquered Saurashtra later on established their rule over there.