Jaipur Trip

Hawa Mahal 

Amber Fort

Jal Mahal

Last week I visited Jaipur, pink City, and capital city of Rajasthan. Jaipur has such a tremendous royal culture. Jaipur is famous for its pink buildings, unique architecture, Forts, Monuments, Palaces, Art & Craft. In 2 days trip, I was able to cover Amber fort, Jal Mahal, Hawa mahal, Jaigarh fort and to feel the Rajasthani culture, Choki Dhani – A resort based on Rajasthani culture.

Jaipur was founded by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, a Rajput, who ruled from 1699-1744. Sawai Jai Singh had consulted many architects before founding the modern Jaipur city. Buildings, Palaces and monuments are clearly influenced by Mughal and Rajput culture.

The best part of this trip was Choki Dhani. It is a resort based on Rajasthani culture. We were able to get the glimpses of Rajasthan folk dance, Rajasthan’s village life. They welcomed us with traditional Aarti and tikka. There were lots of rides, (camel, elephant etc.), dance, games and other Rajasthani activities, followed by unaltered Rajasthani food served in traditional Rajasthani style. It was lot of fun.

Rajasthani Folk Dance @ Choki Dhani

Folk Dance

Being such a global heritage city there was one disheartening factor, City was poorly maintained. After seeing the city’s cleanliness, it looked like Municipal Corporation does not exist in this city. Garbage was scattered everywhere, since it was rained, waterlogging was in such a bad condition that we could not even walk on world heritage sites.  I wish Govt. authorities and Municipal Corporation realize a basic fact; people traveling from other countries and States take back the memories of your city. It is also the responsibility of citizen of the city but I found hardly anyone localities were bothered about the fact.

Rajasthani Architecture