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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Amber Fort, with Maota Lake in the foreground; Hawa Mahal; and an aerial view of Jaipur from Nahargarh Fort
SPECIAL map not to scale 48 hours in Jaipur Eat paneer ghevar, explore Hawa Mahal and visit the Johari Bazaar. By Neeharika Satyavada must-try. For, when you are in Jaipur, you the City Palace is the Mubarak Mahal or the cannot not have the ghee laden Daal Baati erstwhile palace of reception, which is now Churma at least once. This vegetarian the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum restaurant in the old part of Jaipur has been showcasing unique royal costumes with aipur earned the moniker Pink City going strong since 1954. And, if you need a the traditional Sanganeri prints and folk when Maharaja Ram Singh painted break from all the vegetarian food then head embroidery. A section of the palace is still the entire city pink in honour of the to yet another old favourite, Niros. Locals home to the last ruling royal family, while JPrince of Wales’s visit to India in 1876, swear by the butter chicken here. another section houses a restaurant, only for the colour pink symbolised hospitality. lately opened. Jantar Mantar, a UNESCO One corner of the famous golden triangle See World Heritage Site, is the largest of the fve (Delhi-Agra-Jaipur), Rajasthan’s capital is an The stunning Amer Fort, sitting atop a astronomical observatories built by the enchanting city, bustling with modernity hillock and reached by a road traversed not Maharaja. A beautiful garden that houses and yet steeped in tradition and history. just by your everyday vehicles but also by sixteen intricate and extensive geometric Here’s what you ought to do in Jaipur if you hundreds of elephants (if that’s your style), devices built in bricks and mortar was fnd yourself there either on work, or are in is Jaipur’s star attraction. Scenes and songs designed to measure time, track celestial town for a couple of days. from the 2008 Bollywood blockbuster, bodies, and observe the orbits of the Jodha Akbar, were shot here. An extensive planets. Eat complex of palaces that led down to the Lunch like a royal at the Rajput Room, an citizens’ houses was once the thriving Shop all-day fne-dining restaurant at the Taj capital of Mewar, before it was moved to Johari Bazaar, or jeweller’s bazaar is Jaipur’s Rambagh Palace. The erstwhile home of Jaipur. Along the road up to Amer Fort, stop most popular shopping street. From the celebrated beauty, Maharani Gayatri by at the Panna Meena ka Kund, a small but silver trinkets to exquisite jewellery set in Devi, queen of Jaipur, the Rambagh Palace beautiful eight-storeyed step well, complete kundans, precious gems and diamonds, it is everything that India is associated with. A with the quintessential Rajasthani chhatris truly is an experience, even if it is just to palace of marble elephants, Mughal gardens, at its four corners. The City Palace and the take a look at designs that hark back to a hand-carved marble jalis (latticework), Jantar Mantar, both in the old walled city regal era. Tripolia Bazaar and Krishnapol sandstone balustrades and chhatris. The (Pink City) of Jaipur, located one opposite Bazaar are the other local markets to shop Rajasthani thali at Lakshmi Misthan the other, were built by the founder of for colourful bandhani sarees, turbans, Bhandar, lovingly called LMB, is surely a Jaipur, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II. Within juttis, puppets and mirror-work umbrellas.
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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Amber Fort, with Maota Lake in the foreground; Hawa Mahal; and an aerial view of Jaipur from Nahargarh Fort
SPECIAL map not to scale 48 hours in Jaipur Eat paneer ghevar, explore Hawa Mahal and visit the Johari Bazaar. By Neeharika Satyavada must-try. For, when you are in Jaipur, you the City Palace is the Mubarak Mahal or the cannot not have the ghee laden Daal Baati erstwhile palace of reception, which is now Churma at least once. This vegetarian the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum restaurant in the old part of Jaipur has been showcasing unique royal costumes with aipur earned the moniker Pink City going strong since 1954. And, if you need a the traditional Sanganeri prints and folk when Maharaja Ram Singh painted break from all the vegetarian food then head embroidery. A section of the palace is still the entire city pink in honour of the to yet another old favourite, Niros. Locals home to the last ruling royal family, while JPrince of Wales’s visit to India in 1876, swear by the butter chicken here. another section houses a restaurant, only for the colour pink symbolised hospitality. lately opened. Jantar Mantar, a UNESCO One corner of the famous golden triangle See World Heritage Site, is the largest of the fve (Delhi-Agra-Jaipur), Rajasthan’s capital is an The stunning Amer Fort, sitting atop a astronomical observatories built by the enchanting city, bustling with modernity hillock and reached by a road traversed not Maharaja. A beautiful garden that houses and yet steeped in tradition and history. just by your everyday vehicles but also by sixteen intricate and extensive geometric Here’s what you ought to do in Jaipur if you hundreds of elephants (if that’s your style), devices built in bricks and mortar was fnd yourself there either on work, or are in is Jaipur’s star attraction. Scenes and songs designed to measure time, track celestial town for a couple of days. from the 2008 Bollywood blockbuster, bodies, and observe the orbits of the Jodha Akbar, were shot here. An extensive planets. Eat complex of palaces that led down to the Lunch like a royal at the Rajput Room, an citizens’ houses was once the thriving Shop all-day fne-dining restaurant at the Taj capital of Mewar, before it was moved to Johari Bazaar, or jeweller’s bazaar is Jaipur’s Rambagh Palace. The erstwhile home of Jaipur. Along the road up to Amer Fort, stop most popular shopping street. From the celebrated beauty, Maharani Gayatri by at the Panna Meena ka Kund, a small but silver trinkets to exquisite jewellery set in Devi, queen of Jaipur, the Rambagh Palace beautiful eight-storeyed step well, complete kundans, precious gems and diamonds, it is everything that India is associated with. A with the quintessential Rajasthani chhatris truly is an experience, even if it is just to palace of marble elephants, Mughal gardens, at its four corners. The City Palace and the take a look at designs that hark back to a hand-carved marble jalis (latticework), Jantar Mantar, both in the old walled city regal era. Tripolia Bazaar and Krishnapol sandstone balustrades and chhatris. The (Pink City) of Jaipur, located one opposite Bazaar are the other local markets to shop Rajasthani thali at Lakshmi Misthan the other, were built by the founder of for colourful bandhani sarees, turbans, Bhandar, lovingly called LMB, is surely a Jaipur, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II. Within juttis, puppets and mirror-work umbrellas.
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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Don’t forget to pick up ghevar in Jaipur; a door at the city palace in Jaipur; and traditional lamps at Johari Bazaar
Do Catch the sunset at Nahargarh Fort. Also called the Tiger Fort, the Nahargarh Fort is famous for its sunset views of the city. First built in 1734, this fort on the edge of a ridge was named after a prince, Nahar Singh Bhomia, whose restless spirit wouldn’t allow anything to be constructed here. Legend has it that whatever was built during the day crumbled down at night, and it was to appease his spirit up to showcase and sensitise visitors that this fort was named after him and to the art of traditional hand-block stands till today, even after over two printing on fabrics, this museum, and a half centuries. Explore the Hawa housed in a restored haveli under the Mahal from inside. Hawa Mahal is a shadow of the Amer Fort, has been paradox. It is at once Jaipur’s — or even making it to the must-visit list of the Rajasthan’s — most iconic monument discerning traveller interested in and it is also probably its most understanding the artisanal heritage underrated. Everyone’s visit to this of a place. If not for anything else, beauty in pink begins and ends with a just to take a look at the hundreds of picture outside it. But you really enjoy fabrics on display and see the artisans it and begin to appreciate its name, themselves at work should be an Hawa Mahal, the Palace of Winds, interesting and ofeat experience. only once you are inside. Going up the winding passageways, discovering Take Back the numerous little windows and their The ‘world famous’ paneer ghevar tiny embellished doors, the larger from Lakshmi Misthan Bhandar. A stained-glass windows through which traditional sweet made of fresh cottage sunlight flters into little squares of cheese, milk, sugar, ghee and four, it GoAir operates direct green and red, the countless arches looks like a honeycomb and melts in fights to Jaipur from and the expansive terraced courtyards your mouth delightfully. Blue pottery Mumbai, Ahmedabad, that ofer you views of the nearby is the traditional craft of Jaipur. From Kolkata and convenient connections from Kochi, Jantar Mantar and the City Palace, the typical urns and vases to modern- Bengaluru, Chennai Hawa Mahal has much more to ofer day tea sets in hues of white and blue and Goa. than meets the eye. Visit the Anokhi painted with animal and foral motifs, For more information, Museum of Hand Printing, located just they all make for beautiful souvenirs log on to www.GoAir.in outside the exit of the Amer Fort. Set not just to use but also as decor.
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