Jaipur Travel Guide

Jaipur Travel Guide
	by our India expert Terry Emery Jaipur, the main city of Rajasthan on the North-West border with Pakistan, is a modern ‘new town’ - if you’ll accept its planned foundation in 1727 as being India’s ‘modern’. Often described as the ‘Pink City’ because its elegant avenues and many buildings retain that colour from their painting to receive the Prince of Wales in the 1850’s, it is a spacious, carefully laid-out, extremely pleasant location, increasingly a focus for tourists to the beautiful hills, lakes and palaces region of the ‘Golden Triangle’. Essential attractions include the Amber Fort, superbly decorated but named for the location (Amer) rather than amber, the intricate frontage of the Palace of the Winds, and the City Palace with its striking Peacock Gate. If you happen to be around in March, there’s a lively and very colourful Elephant Festival with carnival-clad jumbo’s processing through the streets. A visit to Jaipur also links comfortably with the successful tiger reserve game park of Ranthambore (about 3 hrs drive).

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