Saheliyon-ki-Bari
Udaipur, Rajasthan
The garden of the maidens, in the north of Udaipur, built by Rana Sangram Singh for the women of the court. Fountains, kiosks, a lotus pool and marble elephants, laid out around water brought down from the lake above — the fountains were engineered to run on that fall alone, without pumps. There is a small museum on the site with material on the city's history. It is a garden rather than a monument, so treat it as half an hour and not an afternoon, and go early: it is small enough that two coach parties fill it.
