Amisha Patel has never failed to push in the fact she is an economics scholar since the time she sought to enhance her economic status by plunging into Bollywood with Kaho Naa...Pyaar Hai.

After the huge debut hit in 2000 with the other debutant, Hrithik Roshan, shot in New Zealand, there was this other mega hit with Sunny Deol, Gadar, a history based film -- on Partition.

Now, can you guess where the economics and history oriented cutie loves to spend her holidays? Sure, she wouldn't mind a run on some beach or a climb up snow-clad mountains. But Amisha Patel -- hear this -- loves visiting historical places, and opt for them any day!

She is also at pains to reveal that she had also done a project thesis on India's ancient temples, forts and palaces while studying in the USA.

At present Amisha is where her heart is, in culturally rich Rajasthan. Of course, when you are shooting you hardly can squeeze out time for a "visit", and Amisha is there shooting for Priyadarshan's movie, Bhool Bhulaiya.

But Amisha waits for the slightest opportunity and break in schedule so that she can immediately take off to the state's glorious historical places.

Amisha managed to visit the famous Raj Palace in Jaipur and was predictably very impressed. She was quite taken up by the palace's architecture, its furniture, chandeliers, silverware and other works of arts.

Amisha revealed her more than cursory interest in the history of the palace by indicating her knowledge about the Princess of the royal family of Chomu inheriting it from her father, the king.

Speaking about her fondest memories of a vacation, Amisha counted the one in Egypt as most memorable. She had visited the great pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx and many ancient Egyptian temples standing down the banks of the river Nile. - (SAMPURN)