Gurugram: things to do worth your time

A private collector's hoard of masks, dolls, textiles and ritual objects from every corner of India, crammed into a suburban bungalow.

A four-storey purpose-built museum on the Delhi-Jaipur highway with India's largest collection of vintage cars, aircraft, trains and palanquins.

A live-theatre and cultural theme complex staging Bollywood-scale musicals and a walkable street of Indian states.

Aditya Arya's private collection of 2,500 historic cameras and prints, arranged as an actual museum with rotating photography exhibitions.

The 73-metre red sandstone tower begun by Qutub-ud-din Aibak in 1193, and India's tallest minaret, twenty kilometres north of Cyber City.

The 1570 tomb-garden of the second Mughal emperor and the direct architectural ancestor of the Taj Mahal, an hour from Gurugram.

A 15th-century Rajput fort on the Delhi-Jaipur highway restored as a heritage hotel and open to day visitors.

The city's most important temple, dedicated to the goddess after whom Gurgaon-Gurugram was once informally called Sheetla-gram.

The largest Sikh gurudwara in Gurugram, serving langar every day of the year and open to visitors of any faith.

The 14th-century Sufi shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya, alive every Thursday evening with qawwali singers.

A shallow Aravalli reservoir 40 km south of Gurugram where locals kayak, camp and eat parathas on Sundays.

A 400-acre rewilded former mining site next to Cyber Hub, now the city's cleanest walking and jogging space.

A 34-acre landscaped park in the middle of Sector 29 with a musical fountain, amphitheatre and morning yoga on the lawns.

The open-air food-and-drink plaza at the heart of Cyber City where corporate Gurugram eats, meets and drinks after work.

The corporate heart of new Gurugram — 25 million sq ft of Grade-A office towers walkable via elevated skywalks.

A shallow wetland on the Gurugram-Farrukhnagar road that draws Siberian cranes, flamingos and 250 other bird species between October and March.

The city's original nightlife district — 60-plus restaurants and bars grouped around three open pedestrian courtyards.

An indoor food-street inside Kingdom of Dreams with 14 regional Indian food stalls under a painted-ceiling sky.

Gurugram's biggest water park with 20 slides, a wave pool and India's original brand-name adventure rides.

A 9-hole public golf course in Sector 43 with green fees a fraction of the private clubs on Golf Course Road.

Old Gurgaon's chaotic wholesale market for spices, brass, fabric and everything else the malls do not sell.

One of India's largest malls with 230 stores, a 7-screen PVR, ice rink and the flagship stores of most international brands.

Natural sulphur springs in the small hill town of Sohna, used medicinally for over 400 years.