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of Tourism – Government of as a silver ------H-71, Jakhoreshwar Marg, Near category stay. It has 7 rooms. Madhosingh Circle 2 Hotel Utsav +91-9829127194 Mid Adjoin Swami Narayan Temple Set in a peaceful residential area, the Guest house is built to make you feel at home, as if Hotel Utsav is a budget hotel located in the you are staying with your friends on a family 4 Whispering Palms Hotel posh locality of Rajasthan, Jaipur. It is a holiday. Main road and nearest shopping perfect place for business and leisure. The center are about 150 mts. away. Nearest nearby attractions include Akshardham movie theatre is about half a kilometer away Mandir and Vaishali Market which are just A-12, Sain Colony, Near Railway and yet the guesthouse is completely quiet walking distance away from Hotel Utsav. The Station and peaceful and serene. There are plenty budget hotel serves pure vegetarian food of potted plants and medicinal neem The hotel is located at Sain Colony of Jaipur. and has nearby eateries like Mc Donalds (margosa) trees and a lush green lawn It is situated in vicinity to the railway station. and Dominos along with other restaurants. where you can enjoy your tea and coffee or Hotel Trilok Palace offers accommodation Hotel Utsav is very safe and provides simply sit in the shade of the neem tree and for the guests in rooms with amenities like transportation and assistance with luggage relax and enjoy your self. cable TV, intercom and shower area. In on request. The budget hotel serves addition to that, the guests can avail several business travelers as well and has a There is a Jhoola (swing) in the garden Whispering Palms Hotel is a perfect choice other general facilities like taxi service and dedicated conference room. where you can enjoy and also an aquarium for those looking for a comfortable yet travel desk.The Jaipur Airport is located at a ------full of beautiful and colorful fishes. There is economical stay in the princely state of distance of 11 kms from the hotel and the a cage full of “LOVE BIRDS” (parakeets) of Jaipur. The property has a nice feel to it and Jaipur Railway Station is just .1 km the well trained staff of here makes sure 3 Cosy Home different colours to make you spend your away.Hotel FacilitiesTaxi Services | Railway time enjoying yourself. that your every need is met promptly and Station Transfer | Airport Transfer | Travel efficiently. Desk | Laundry Service | Doctor on Call | Guest & Host staying at Parking Room AmenitiesAC | Cable TV | Cosy Home is a social experience. We 5 Nahargarh Haveli Intercom Facility | Study Table | Shower emphasise that Area | Hot & Cold Running Water The Cosy Home is a home, not an hotel. As a hotel offers 41 rooms in 2 categories: Air guest in a private house you have privileges Cooled and Deluxe AC. Room service is and also obligations just as you do when available for the staying with relatives or friends. guests.DiningRestaurantInternet: Not

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+91-91-141-640101 Fortune Select Metropolitan include a swimming pool, lawns/gardens, restaurant, The Oberoi Rajvilas Jaipur offers unique 5- coffee shop, central heating, doctor on call, star accommodation in Jaipur City. Set bar, dining hall, Wi-Fi enabled, gymnasium, amidst beautiful greenery, this luxurious sun beds (pool), handicap facility, health property boasts a pool, 3 dining options and club, executive lounge, room service, spa, free on-site parking. outdoor activities, yoga meditation centre, games room and travel desk. Facilities like a 8 Fortune Select Metropoiltan business centre, conference, taxi services, airport & railway station transfers, 24 An authentic Rajasthani experience awaits hour room service, guide service, doctor on you at Nahargarh Haveli. The spacious call, massage centre, Ayurveda centre, rooms adorned with beautiful paintings are laundry facility and sightseeing are available comfortable and welcoming. If food is your on a chargeable basis.Room AmenitiesThe refuge, the rooftop restaurant at the hotel hotel offers accommodation in 90, well- Location. Hotel Ganga Kripa is located in cooks up an array of Rajasthani delicacies. furnished, well-designed rooms in 3 Jaipur, close to , Head to this hotel for a wonderful categories, i.e. Standard Rooms, Fortune Ram Niwas Gardens, and Central Museum. experience and save your moolah. Along Club and Suite. All rooms come complete Nearby points of interest also include with the pleasant services it provides, the with in-room amenities such as cable Museum of Indology and Bapu Bazaar. hotel also enjoys a great location that gives television, air-conditioning, intercom facility, Hotel Features. Hotel Ganga Kripa features a one superb connectivity. Near Nehru Sahkar Bhavan, C direct dial telephone, data port, Wi-Fi restaurant. Room service is available. Scheme internet access, tea/coffee maker, mineral 6 Hotel Ganga Kripa Additional property amenities include water, iron & ironing board, sofa unit, The hotel is located close to a number of tour/ticket assistance and dry study table, daily newspaper, electronic safe, tourist attractions such as Amber Fort, cleaning/laundry services. 24 hours room service and a separate , , City Palace, Guestrooms. Televisions have satellite washroom with a shower area, bath tub, hot Jantar Mantar, , Birla Mandir channels. & cold running water and bathroom and Albert Museum Hall. The hotel is the toiletries. A mini bar is available but on a preferred destination for the business and chargeable basis. DiningThe dining options Luxury leisure travellers and provides international at the hotel include Zodiac, which is a 24 standard of services & facilities with hour multi-cuisine coffee shop and traditional Indian hospitality. Fortune Select 7 The Oberoi Rajvilas Jaipur Nostradamus, a bar with a fine selection of Metropolitan, located in Jaipur is wines and liquors. Co... approximately 7 kilometres away from the Goner Road Sanganer Airport and 3 kilometres away 9 Hotel Royal Orchid from the Jaipur Railway Station. Hotel FacilitiesThe facilities provided at the Jaipur-Guide page 4

landmarks in the city, Hawa Mahal is magnificent architecture and huge gardens SEE perhaps also one of the most unique take you to the eras of Rajas and Maharajas. historic structures throughout the country. From the richly decorated gateways to the 5 Sights fascination that awaits you at each of the museums, the place makes for an exciting 1 Hawa Mahal time. 

Johari Bazar Road, Badi Choupad, Badi Chaupar, Jaipur, Rajasthan, There is little to be seen inside the 302002, India Opposite to BSNL Office, Tonk Road, complex, if you want to save yourself the Near Durgapura Flyover, Durgapura All Days 09:00 AM-04:30 PM effort of climbing up 5 cramped set of stairs, Location. Hotel Royal Orchid is located in just click pictures from outside! At the Mubarak Mahal, you can see the Jaipur's Bani Park neighborhood, close to Built in 1799 by Maharaja Sawai Singh as a variety of textiles and the lush garments the Nahargarh Fort, Ram Niwas Gardens, and part of the City Palace, Hawa Mahal was an 2 City Palace Maharajas of Jaipur used to wear. From Central Museum. Nearby points of interest extension of the women's chamber with the Sanganeri Block Prints to exquisite Kashmiri also include Bapu Bazaar and City Palace. purpose of allowing royal ladies to observe Kanwar Nagar, Pink City, Jaipur, Pashminas, you can see it all here. The most Hotel Features. Dining options at Hotel everyday life in the street below without Rajasthan, 302002, India fascinating amongst these costumes are Royal Orchid include a restaurant and a being seen. A five-storey high red sandstone All Days 09:00 AM-05:00 PM perhaps the ones of Sawai Madhosingh I, structure complete with over 950 windows, who weighed about 250 kg and still coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is Hawa Mahal was made in such a way that managed to have 108 wives! open for drinks. Room service is available 24 Located inside the old city, City Palace is a the breeze circulates through these hours a day. Recreational amenities include blend of traditional and Mughal windows, giving the palace its name. an outdoor pool, an indoor pool, a health architecture bound to leave you awestruck. club, a spa tub, and a sauna. This 4-star A vast palace complex that occupies nearly a property has a business center. High-speed seventh of the Pink City, this palace was

Internet access is available in public areas. originally built by Maharaja Jai Singh II in The next stop on your adventure in the City Additional property amenities include a 1932. Today, City Palace is known for Palace will probably be the Chandra Mahal, concierge desk, a fitness facility, and housing the Chandra Mahal and the If you look at it closely, the five-storeyed which can be called the most magnificent currency exchange. Mubarak Mahal, apart from the series of Hawa Mahal appears like a bee hive, structure in the whole building, without a Guestrooms. Air-conditioned guestrooms courtyards, sprawling gardens and buildings specially so because the windows are doubt! With seven floors that have their own at Hotel Royal Orchid feature minibars and that populate the complex. decorated with very fine lattice work. It is unique names, the building houses some of safes. Televisions have DVD players. Guests said that the designer of this structure, Lal the finest paintings, floral decorations and may request irons/ironing boards, hair Chand Ustad envisioned the Hawa Mahal in mirror work art that you would have set dryers, and wake-up calls. such a way that it resembles the crown of your eyes on. Only the ground floor of the

Lord Krishna, the favourite deity of women Chandra Mahal is accessible as the

What To in Rajasthan. One of the most prominent descendants of the royal family still reside in One step into the City Palace and the Jaipur-Guide page 5

the rest of the building.  jewelry collection with some brass articles. technology to study and decipher some Other Specialties of the display include complicated facts of science. The biggest Today the accuracy of the structures here wood works, refined carvings, clay wares instrument here is the Samrat Yantra. This is questionable, mainly because of their and traditional dresses of the various kings. 90 feet structure is used to measure the sheer size and the unskilled labour that Witness these antiques and be lost in a time of the day by calculating and observing constructed it. However, local astronomers world of opulence! the placement and length of the shadow. still use the place to make predictions for Other notable places inside the complex There are even some smaller instruments the farmers. All said and done, the place include the two sterling silver vessels in the 4 Jantar Mantar which are a feat of architecture and show makes for a visit, thanks to the fascination Diwan-I-Khas, which are the largest vessels noteworthy design and functions like the factor it holds! in the world, weaponry display at the Near City Palace, Tripolia Bazar, Ram Yantra.  Maharani Palace and the Baggi Khana, a Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302002, India museum of the Maharaja's rides. All Days 09:30 AM-04:30 PM

3 Albert Hall Museum Lauded as a UNESCO World Heritage Site

and located very close to the City Palace, Best time to visit: October to March. Ram Niwas Garden, Adarsh Nagar, Jantar Mantar is the largest of five Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302004, India The Jantar Mantar in Jaipur is one among astronomical observatories built by five built by Maharaja Jai Singh II between All Days 09:00 AM-05:00 PM Maharaja Jai Singh during the period 1727- 1727 and 1734. The Jaipur Observatory is 1734. Consisting of fourteen major the largest and best preserved of these Also known as the Government Central geometric devices for measuring time, structures. The observatory consists of 14 5 Jaigarh Fort Museum, this one of the oldest museums of predicting eclipses, tracking stars in their major geometric devices for measuring Jaipur and retains the essence of the orbits, ascertaining the declination of time, predicting eclipses, tracking stars’ Maharajas of Jaipur. The museum houses a planets and determining the celestial location as the earth orbits around the sun, number of courtyards, archways and towers altitudes, the observatory is a major ascertaining the declinations of planets and standing as an symbol for rich architectural attraction for kids and adults alike. There is determining the celestial altitudes and heritage of the country.  not a single boring moment as you marvel related ephemerides. Each is a fixed and at the operations of these devices.  ‘focussed’ tool. The Samrat Yantra, the

largest instrument, is 90 feet (27 m) high, its

shadow carefully plotted to tell the time of

day. Its face is angled at 27 degrees, the

latitude of Jaipur. Albert Hall Museum displays several miniature paintings along with portraits of The name Jantar Mantar literally translates Amer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302013, the royal kings displayed on the first floor of into instrument of calculation. Visiting the India the museum. Other valuable artworks place is a fascinating experience as one can All Days 09:00 AM-04:30 PM include metal artwork, carving and huge learn how our ancestors used limited Jaipur-Guide page 6

35 (Indians) 85 (foreigners) Included maintained in the ancient times in the dry grill a spin and feast on some Tikkas and only drink from Shop 312! in the price of the 1-week City Palace ticket. lands of Jaipur. The fort also provides some Kebabs, fresh out of the Tandoor. 3 Four Seasons excellent views of the Aravallis, totally worth Often called the best fort in all of Jaipur, some clicks.  Drinks of choice are served along with your the Jaigarh Fort features amongst the most meal and make for nice accompaniments. D 43A, Subhash Marg, Ashok Nagar, well preserved monuments of medieval Don't finish your appetite at just the C Scheme, Jaipur India. Jaipur was a major region of weapon starters; there is more yumminess awaiting All Days 11:00 AM-11:00 PM when you head to the main course. Their production during the Mughal times and +91-141-2211919 you can see the specimens of this artillery desserts provide the perfect ending to a when you visit the museum inside the fort. Very recently, a 325 metre long, 18th meal so tasty and their tarts are an absolute A multi cuisine restaurant that serves This fort was constructed by Maharaja Jai century tunnel which connects delight. Chinese, fast food and North Indian menus. Singh II to protect the Amer Fort in the and Jaigarh Fort was opened to public after This place is hugely popular among local 2 Lassiwala occurence of an invasion.  renovation and excavation. This is a major and tourists, and has a beautiful glass- tourist draw these days. For the sake of the window instead of the kitchen wall where elderly, golf operated carts are run along Shop No 312, M I Road, Jaipur, you can see your meals being cooked. this tunnel to make seeing both the sites Rajasthan, 302001, India easier. All Days 07:00 AM-05:00 PM Recommended dishes here include Chole Rs. 12 Puri, Masala Dosa and Saag Paneer and the Best known for housing the world's largest Where To +91-141-2378692|+91-98290-20356 continental cuisine is good as well. The cannon, the Jaivana, which was test-fired service might lag a little some times, be only once, Jaigarh Fort is another A magical combination of creamy yoghurt prepared to call the waiter a few times magnificent example of fine architecture in Eat and ice, Lassiwala is one place in Jaipur before you are heard. Jaipur. Two very tempting reasons to visit 5 Places whose fame probably equals that of the the fort are the beautiful gardens and the Amer Fort. Operating out of a small store on 4 Chokhi Dhani Restaurant spellbinding views of the Amber Fort and 1 Barbeque Nation the MI Road, this place has been the haunt the hills around. This massive structure of tourists and locals for years now. 19 km south of Jaipur, via Vatika, spans close to  3 km and is about 1 City Plex Mall, Shop No. 1, Ashram Tonk Road, Jaipur, Rajasthan, km wide, and houses the Lalit Mandir, Vilas Marg, Tonk Road, Jaipur, Jaipur, The lassi is served in mud cups called 302001, India Mandir, Lakshmi Vilas and Aram Mandir. Rajasthan, 302001, India kulhars and comes in two sizes, small and All Days 01:00 PM-03:00 PMnull- large. Nowadays there are competitors 10:30 PM All Days 12:30 PM-02:30 PMnull- 10:00 PM sprouting up all over Jaipur with the same +91-141-5165000 +91-141-3138001 name, and your rickshaw and auto wallahs Also known as the Lalten Restaurant, Chokhi tend to take you to their own favourite Dhani is one of the most popular places to A restaurant that serves North Indian versions of the Lassiwala, which may or may sample traditional food, and of course, a The lush green gardens in the palace cuisine at its yummiest best. If you’re in the not be the original one. The way out? Insist slice of true Rajasthani culture. Enjoy camel complex are a treat to the eyes, and it is mood for some live cooking, give their live on the Lassiwala situated on MI Road and fascinating to wonder how they were Jaipur-Guide page 7

rides and traditional performances or Air Conditioned splurge in the in-house flea-market.  Wifi Parking Available Home Delivery Take Away Counter Private Parties This village-style restaurant serves authentic Rajasthani cuisine in an authentic Crowd: Rajasthani ambiance and opens at 6 PM everyday. The usual Rajasthani Thali Couples includes Gatte Ki Sabzi, Daal Baati, Churma, Families Khichadi and some lip-smacking dessert like Youngsters Kheer. 

5 Brown Sugar Bakers & Cafe

Axis Mall, Shop No. 1, Ground Floor, Bhagwan Das Road, In Axis Mall, C Scheme

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This place has a young-look-and-feel to it and is almost always full of noisy youngsters. As part of one of the smaller malls, a little away from the main Mirza Ismail Road, this 40-cover coffee bar has all the popular items like sandwiches, cakes, muffins and a wide range of coffees and cookies. At best you can call its food a little above average and wish the management paid more attention to the little details. Nevertheless, it's a nice place to do time- pass with friends, and some of their bakery products are quite good. Features:

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See A: Hawa Mahal B: City Palace C: Albert Hall Museum D: Jantar Mantar E: Jaigarh Fort Accommodation F: Whispering Palms Hotel G: Nahargarh Haveli H: Hotel Ganga Kripa I: Hotel Trilok Palace J: Hotel Utsav K: Cosy Home L: The Oberoi Rajvilas Jaipur M: Fortune Select Metropoiltan N: Hotel Royal Orchid Food O: Barbeque Nation P: Lassiwala Q: Four Seasons R: Chokhi Dhani Restaurant S: Brown Sugar Bakers & Cafe