Nahargarh Fort Jaipur

Wednesday... Another holiday for the schools! Some religious holiday where the families bake food on the Tuesdays and walk to their temples to give food to their gods and replenish their souls and get rid of evil. ( I sunbathed that morning!) the afternoon the four of us took a trek to Nahargarh fort (tiger fort) the king built it to keep his …

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DAY 5

With the plan of Ali my Touk driver to pick me up at 10am in the morning, I was looking for a day of great productive tourism. Before though, it was a cup of black coffee, or Dino fuel as I like to call it, sat in front of the Oscar ceremony at 8:30am, which I have to say was a bit surreal as I've always been used to getting up in …

The drive to Jaipur from Delhi was extremely long-think 8 hours. Its also interestingly dangerous as, depending on your driver, there is an endless supply of large trucks, several camels, jay walkers, motorcyclists, that you will most likely try to overtake. You can see some locals in their shops or too many people crammed into the back of a truck …

Tonnara is an Italian term for a fishing tecnique used in Sicily until a few decades ago. Tunafish would be captured by channelling them through a tunnel built inside the fishing ships and slaughtered using spikes and sticks.

This is somehow how it feels like here, but once you get past the madness it's quite a beautiful place.

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Its always a good time to go out explore places. But the omen really made me believe that its really going to be a heck of journey! :)

Omen was "Aao milon chalein" (translates as lets travel miles) song playing on 104 FM.

Day 1
I, my hubby Vijay and our i10 commenced our travel on 2^nd March'13 at 08:35 in morning …

This was by far our most fun day in India yet. First we went to Amber Fort which is quite high up in the hills – beautiful views. It is a big tourist spot and you could tell by the amount of people trying to sell us carvings, bracelets, pens, post cards etc and tour guides assuring us that it was such a big place that we would get lost...just …

3 May 2012 :

We were picked up by Raj from our hotel at 9.00am and we headed towards the Old City/Pink City again.

Hawa Mahal :

Raj stopped by the roadside for us to capture on photograph the magnificent Hawa Mahal (Palace of Winds). This extraordinary pink-sandstone building was truly grand, its most distinctive feature …

... breathtaking. We spent the better part of two days visiting these attractions. Our first stop was Nahargarh Fort, located on a hill about 15 kilometers outside of Jaipur. There's not much to see inside, as the fort has been neglected for the most ...

... are left to imagine the interior of the Sukh Niwas (Hall of Pleasure) from outside locked doors. Like the apartments in Nahargarh Fort, the women’s Zenana section is designed so that the maharaja could conduct his nocturnal visits to his wives and ...

... century to devise accurate time and astronomical measurements. I feel this place would have been my favourite if I could have visited. Nahargarh fort is great but I miss sunset due to my idiotic rickshaw driver who insists on leaving me here to walk ...

... at a sweets shop and picked up many delicious goodies for 120 rupees ($2.60). The sun was already setting, so we headed for the Nahargarh Fort. The fort is stationed on a hill high above the city and was the first fort to be built in the area. In the ...

... home to find out that we were the only one that went to work today, everyone else had their cancelled. In the afternoon we went off to Nahargarh Fort aka the tiger fort. It was bloody miles away it took an hour to get there in a tuk tuk and it was all ...

... -1835) 3. Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II (1835-1880) He had Jaipur painted pink and added the Madhavendra Bhawan to the Nahargarh fort. 4. Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh II (1880-1922) He built the sandstone Welcome Palace or Mubarak Mahal in 1900. He ...

... .  It was nice.  I am including pictures. 3. The Forts:  Jaipur has three forts: The Amber Fort, Jaigarh Fort, and the Nahargarh Fort.  Our school took a field trip to them yesterday.  For me, the highlites of this trip were ...

... Mantar observatory. Outside the city we cruised through the Amer Fort (sans elephant ride) as well as the Nahargarh Fort with its hilltop views of Jaipur and even fit in the royal marble tombs, the Cenetoph Gaitor. When man from the Jaipur ruling ...

... and later to Amer for. All these tourist places are close so one can plan to visit them one after other.  Nahagarh Fort Nahargarh fort is 7 kms away from Jal mahal. The road connecting them is little narrow. Traffic slowed down and it took us a ...

... the Hawa Mahal (Palace of the Winds), 20 rupees to go up the Minaret off Bazaar Road, and nothing for walking up to the Nahargarh Fort overlooking the city.  The highlight for me though was the Amber Fort and Palace a 20 minute bus ride out of town. ...