Welcome to
Jaipur
India
Jaipur is the Pink City of Rajasthan — a city painted in terracotta pink to welcome the Prince of Wales in 1876 and never changed back, giving it the most distinctive streetscape in India. The Amber Fort, rising above a lake on a desert ridge outside the city, is one of the subcontinent's finest examples of Rajput military architecture, and the City Palace, Hawa Mahal (Palace of Winds), and Jantar Mantar astronomical observatory fill the historic centre with extraordinary monuments. Jaipur is also one of India's great bazaar cities: the lanes of the old city are filled with block-print fabrics, blue pottery, gemstones, leather shoes, and silver jewellery, making it one of the finest shopping destinations in South Asia.
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Albert Hall Museum
Rajasthan's grandest museum lives inside a fairy-tale Indo-Saracenic palace.
Amber Fort
A 16th-century Rajput fortress where every courtyard tells a story in stone.
Birla Mandir
Gleaming white marble temple where ancient devotion meets open-sky serenity.
City Palace
A living royal palace where Jaipur's maharaja still actually resides.
Hawa Mahal
A five-story honeycomb palace built so royal women could watch the world unseen.
Jal Mahal
A five-storey royal palace rising from the middle of a lake.
Jantar Mantar
An 18th-century open-air observatory built to read the sky with stone.
Johari Bazaar
Jaipur's ancient jewellery district, where Rajasthani gems and gold have traded for centuries.
Nahargarh Fort
Jaipur's hilltop fortress with the city's best panoramic views.
Panna Meena Ka Kund
A geometric stepwell of hypnotic symmetry hiding in plain sight near Amber Fort.
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