Iranshah fire temple, Udvada - 10 KM
The ritual fire in the Atash Behram of Udvada, a sleepy little coastal town in Gujarat, has been burning for over a millennium. “The idea is to keep it burning for centuries to come,” says Khurshed Dastur, 51, the high priest of the Udvada fire temple, the Iranshah Atash Behram, the oldest-burning fire temple in the world. Several centuries’ accumulation of history has to be poignant for a community wrestling with the possibility of near extinction in the coming decades.