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Rajasthan Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Rajasthan, India
Emma's Guide to Bollywood
This is a top pick! ... receive an autograph from some faceless Bollywood Superstar. For others it might mean nothing at all. But to the vast percentage of India's population, this name might as well be a prayer. Amitabh – or 'Big B’ as he’s affectionately ...
The Pink City And Amber Fort
This is a top pick! ... Fort, with its walls rolling all along the hills in a manner resembling the Great Wall Of China. For the first time, India appeared to possess a landscape. On the way back into town we stopped at the Jal Mahal. Seemingly floating on the ...
The Pink Gate of Jaipur
This is a top pick! ... Jaipur, an hour after sunrise. I'd describe the walls as more of a coral or orange, but since this is the Pink City of Rajasthan I'll go with it. Even at this hour a steady stream of traffic honks past in both directions: horse-drawn carts, bicycles, ...
Trapped inside
This is a top pick! I'm stuck in a hotel again. Despite the noise from the temples and mosques, the staff are still asleep. Indian hotels keep fairly conservative hours or have habits slightly restrictive to someone used to to-ing and fro-ing as I please. In ...
The Golden City
This is a top pick! ... to look at a few blankets, and somehow became embroilled in a marathon selling ritual. ---- My advice to anyone shopping in Rajasthan? Unless you're serious about buying something, you need to establish immediately that you're just browsing, and flee the ...
On train, heading west
This is a top pick! ... month it is. Emma's sense of time has slipped into the manaņa. The train lulls me into the beginnings of a similar temporal trance. India rolls by persuasive and varied: a boy goatherd leads his flock on a dusty hill; humble huts of brick or mud or ...
Night train to Jaisalmer
This is a top pick! Moon broad but imperfect rides beside the train, beside we passengers that are part of this dark movement across the desert. Small stations pass, a single lamp shining for the silent players upon their stage. We are our own herald. All the ...
A peaceful interlude....
This is a top pick! ... , La Mystica, I loved Jaisalmer. It seemed calm, cleaner and more friendly than the other places we have been to in India. This feeling was confirmed the first time that we walked into town and through the markets...there was no hassle and if ...
Camel Safari
This is a top pick! Amazing, brilliant, fantastic! Despite the sore muscles and bums these are definitely the words to describe our camel safari. The Thar desert close to Jaisalmer is mostly scrub land but because of this the changing scenery made it more interesting ...
Jaipur - Agra Day 6
After Andrew fell asleep ridiculously early last night, he awoke at 11pm and couldn't get back to sleep. He resorted to watching Men In Black 3, a film I have watched many times. Being the horrible, cheeky person that he is, he also took his malaria ...
Indian home cooking/ luxury living in udaipur
This is a top pick! ... , has just been voted one of the most beautiful cities in the world and I heartily agree with the judgement. It's Rajasthan at its romantic best: a land of shimmering lakes, hazy wooded hills, whitewashed havelis and the cupolas and balconies of old ...
photos from Jaisalmer
This is a top pick! I'll put in the story later. For now, here's what a desert city is like... http://www.flickr.com/photos/71103764@N00/ ...
The Blue City
This is a top pick! ... symphony. Devinder guided us through a friendly and efficient check-in at Jagat Villas, our first homegrown guesthouse experience in India. The family matriarch watched over her well-trained boys in the kitchen while they made us breakfast. ...
The Pink City
This is a top pick! ... Jaipur is a big city of about 4 million. In the afternoon we did a bit of a walking tour. I saw the Hawa Mahal, India's second most photographed building. Then ventured through the old town and markets, with a stop at LMB, Jaipur's famous sweet and snack ...
Still looking for our Kitty Kat!
This is a top pick! Woke up to coffee in bed and life is good. We take another game drive and come up empty handed as far as tiger sightings go. We did, however, get another stomach full of dust as the ground here is drier than the dust bowl of the ...
On the way to Udaipur
This is a top pick! ... of China) in the world and ushered any potential invaders through 7 progressive gates on the way to a modest (as far as India's standards go) palace at the summit. The various temple complexes at the foot of the palace were more impressive once you ...
Jaipur Day 5
... obviously a very popular attraction and it was the first time that we had been surrounded by other tourists since arriving in India. The elephants were beautiful, and there were hundreds of them. As with any tourist attraction, we were once again ...
Where the mozzies love Danny
This is a top pick! After leaving Jodhpur we landed at Ranakpur - a much greener lush place down in a valley. There were signs everywhere warning of leopards and I (Kate) admit to staring intently at the horizon just in case! The room we stayed in was pretty good apart from ...
Bloody inconvienient tigers.
This is a top pick! So off we head, on a bit of an expensive detour to Ranthambore National Park, allday traveling there, just for some tiger spotting, kate is all excited. unfortunatly the day it self was not covered in glory. firstly we found out the tour, ...
Holy Cow.
This is a top pick! Hello from the Pink City! We are at the end of our stay in Jaipur (which is in the state of Rajasthan). We arrived here on Monday, after an 18 hour train ride up from Mumbai. Lots to tell, and where to begin? Our train ride here would have been ...
Here kitty, kitty, kitty...
This is a top pick! We woke up and went to a fort complex outside Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, built for one of the emperor's wife when she had a son after trying for many years with many wives. Eventually, the emperor married a catholic girl, a muslim woman, and a hindu ...
The REAL India
This is a top pick! ... fun rat spotting (they were kitten sized!) in the Delhi train station, and Kristen even sighted a small mouse on our train. That's India for you... Jaipur was originally founded by a maharaja named Jai Singh in the late 1600's and in fact still has a ...
The long, hard road to Jaisalmer
This is a top pick! ... the charitable orginization Self Employed Womens Association (www.sewa.org - a worthy organizaion working to employ the women of India), the only other noteworthy part of the visit was that Ahmedabad had possibly the worst air quality we have experienced ...
Hi-tech in the Blue City
This is a top pick! ... became very wealthy from the profits of trade in opium, sandalwood, dates, and copper. Like many of the other cities in Rajasthan, this was once a princely kingdom ruled by a maharaja. The big attraction is the Meherangarh, the palace and fortress of the ...
Our Camels, Beansy and Clyde
This is a top pick! ... that morning was much more pleasant. Bikaner was defitely the less touristed desert counterpart to Jaisalmer. Like almost every city in Rajasthan it had a palace and fort, and the palace was worth the visit just for it's mosaics. But we didn't ...
Feelin' Hot, Hot ,Hot!!!!
This is a top pick! ... obviously slept soundly on the overnight bus from the steaming plains of the Punjab to the (hopefully!) drier heat of Bikaner in Rajasthan... I knew that I was heading for a desert region but I still did a double-take as I looked through the window of ...
Pink Flu Anyone?
This is a top pick! ... so called 'Pink City' of Jaipur. After the relative calm of Pushkar we arrived in Jaipur (one of the most polluted cities in rajasthan) with a bit of a jolt!. We were back in the chaotic and frenetic arena of a major city with all the attendant sights and ...
JS, Chai-walla
This is a top pick! ... exit from the temple were amusing. One jumped on the roof of the car. This does not surprise me now that I have been in India for over a week. We continue on over a high mountain pass to the highway then cruise into Udaipur in the late afternoon. After ...
Pushkar
This is a top pick! ... or so. Very surreal and interesting to just sit and watch. It rained very softly on and off all afternoon, the first rain in India since last October. So I decided to try my luck heading into town, but the further I walked away from the hotel, the more I ...
Are we having fun yet?!
This is a top pick! ... more, we were soon ambushed by a bunch of young, over-enthusiastic guys demanding to know which hotel we wanted to stay in (in India, if anyone accompanies or leads you to a hotel they get paid commission and your room rate goes up to cover this). Why ...