Travelling to
Jaipur
Rajasthan
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Art Deco palace finished in 1943; part royal residence, part Taj hotel, with a small public museum wing.
Maharaja Umaid Singh built the palace between 1929 and 1943, partly as a relief project during famine. Designed by H. V. Lanchester, it blends Indo-Deco and Western styles on Chittar hill. The royal family lives in one wing, a luxury hotel occupies another, and a museum shows clocks, photographs and royal memorabilia. Non-hotel visitors can see only the museum and the vintage car display.
Within 1 km of Umaid Bhawan Palace Museum.
Massive 15th-century fort on a rock above Jodhpur's blue city, with one of India's best-run palace museums.
White-marble royal cenotaph near Mehrangarh, built in 1906 for Maharaja Jaswant Singh II, with gardens and a small lake.
Landmark clock tower built by Maharaja Sardar Singh at the heart of Sardar Market in old Jodhpur.
stepwell in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Sardar Market shop by the Clock Tower famed for its thick makhaniya lassi, operating since 1927.
Nai Sarak sweet-and-snack shop, a Jodhpur breakfast staple for pyaz kachori, mawa kachori and mirchi vada.
park in Jodhpur, India
Clock Tower snack shop known for large samosas with a spiced potato-and-cashew filling.
18th-century lakeside haveli at Gangaur Ghat, now a museum with an evening Rajasthani folk dance show.
Palace that appears to float in Man Sagar Lake on the Jaipur–Amer road; viewed from the lakeside promenade only.
Jaipur's signature honeycomb facade of pink sandstone with 953 small windows, built so royal women could watch street life unseen.
Rajasthan's largest palace complex on the east bank of Lake Pichola, built over four centuries by the Mewar rulers; now partly a museum.
17th-century island palace in Lake Pichola, reached only by boat, with gardens, a restaurant and marble elephant sculptures.
Hilltop Rajput-Mughal palace-fort above Maota Lake in Amer, about 11 km north of Jaipur, best known for its mirror-work halls and ramparts.
Shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, one of South Asia's most visited Sufi pilgrimage sites.
India's largest fort by area, a UNESCO hill fort on a 180 m mesa, central to Mewar's history of sieges and sacrifice.