Travel tips

Planning a visit to Jaipur ? Wow !! An excellent choice to spend your leisure days here in the Pink city. Jaipur, the capital of State of Rajasthan in India is a popular tourist destination. A Jaipur tour can be easily planned as it forms the third point in the Golden Triangle while visiting Delhi and Agra. As one of the main tourist attractions in Rajasthan, Jaipur is a city is full of old havelis, palatial houses, bazaars laden with colorful wares such as clothes, jewelery, artifacts, blue pottery, dhurries and many more.

Hotels in Jaipur are well maintained and prepared to cater to tourists all over the world. Some of the huge palatial houses have been converted into hotel and provide royal and luxurious stay to their guests.

Jaipur too has lot to offer to its visitors, famous temples include Galtaji temple, Govind Devji Temple, Birla Templa and Moti Dungri. For the historically inclined tourists worth visiting are the forts and palace such as Amber Fort, Albert Hall, Kanak Vrindavan, Nahargarh Fort and Jaigarh Fort and most important Hawa Mahal, City Palace and Jantar Mantar.

A must do thing while on a Jaipur tour – embark upon desert safari tours. Desert Safaries in Rajasthan are specially designed for the visitors to allow them to experience a desert lifestyle. The Desert Safaries in Rajasthan contains camel rides, staying in traditional mud huts amongst the locals of the rajasthani villages. At the same time one can get a taste of their ethnic culture and lifestyle by enjoying their folk dances and their music performances. The itinerary of a desert Safari is usually of 5 – 6 days. Here, one can relish Rajasthani local cuisine, spend a day in desert relaxing in a tent watching the sand dunes and their varying colors as the sun’s light plays with them. A trip to historic city of Jaisalmer which is full of Jain Temples, Palace Museum Patwaon ki haveli and the Gadisar Lake is not to be ruled out.

Rajasthan’s rich cultural heritage is reflected by vibrant celebrations of various festivals and fairs. Some of the main Festivals celebrated include Bangana fair, Ganesh chaturthi, teej festival, Karni mata festival, marwar festival, makar sankranti festival of kite flying and the Sitabari fair. While on a Jaipur tours on these occasions, the entire city is full of life and vibrant. All the people are out to celebrate and the desert city bears a festive look.

While visiting Jaipur, make sure ample time has been reserved for shopping. With a wide variety items available one is sure to go crazy over the stuff available – clothes in rich vibrant colors using the tie and dye method, jewelery, artifacts, paintings, precious stones, leatherwear, pottery and terra cotta items, dhurries, carpets, linens and furnishing and many more Jaipur is truly a shopper’s paradise.

While visiting Jaipur one can also look forward to visit other tourist attractions of Rajasthan such as the famous historic cities of Jodhpur, Udaipur, the Sariska wildlife Sanctuary, Alwar and the religious city of Pushkar – all of which are located nearby.

travel to India is incomplete without a visit to Jaipur. For a truly luxurious tour of the royal city of Jaipur it makes sense to visit Rajasthan aboard the Palace of Wheels train and get imbibed and infused in the brightly colored hues of Rajasthani culture.

Author: Mark Smith

About the Author:

Mark Smith is an associate editor for the website www.indfy.com, a well known India tourism guide. It is committed to providing visitors with complete information on hotels in Jaipur, cars booking, Rajasthan tours as well as hotels in Agra, Goa, Kerala and around the entire India.