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24 places to explore — hand-picked across Rajasthan.
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Rajasthan
Ajmer Sharif is the most revered Sufi shrine in India — the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, the 12th-century saint who founded the Chishti order. Drawing millions of pilgrims of all faiths, esp…
Begun in 1592 on the hill above Maota lake, in pale sandstone and marble, and the Sheesh Mahal is what the queue is for. The fort stands over the town of Amer, eleven kilometres from Jaipur, and Ma…
Bala Quila crowns a hilltop over 1,000 feet above Alwar, a sprawling fortification some 5km long and 1.5km wide with fifteen large and fifty-one small towers, and — by one official count — 446 loop…
Chittorgarh Fort is a monumental, historic citadel that stands as the largest fort complex across the Indian subcontinent, spread over a fish-shaped plateau spanning nearly 700 acres, it rises shar…
The Dilwara Temples at Mount Abu are a group of five exquisite Jain temples built between the 11th and 13th centuries, known for marble carving cut so thin that the ceilings pass light — ceilings, …
Gagron is Rajasthan's great jala-durg — a water fort — standing where the Ahu meets the Kali Sindh, with rivers guarding three of its sides in place of a moat. Seat of the Khichi Chauhans and besie…
Hill Fort Kesroli is one of the oldest fort-hotels in India, a seven-turreted 14th-century structure built by Yaduvanshi kings on dark Hornstone Breccia rock near Alwar. Successive rulers — Nikumbh…
Jaigarh Fort sits on Cheelka Teela — the "Hill of Eagles" — 400 metres above Amber Fort, its crimson walls visible from almost anywhere inside the Amber complex it was built to defend. Inside stand…
Built in 1156 by Rawal Jaisal at a crossroads of trade routes that fed into the old silk roads, and the second-oldest fort in Rajasthan. It is one of the very few living forts left anywhere: around…
Begun in 1589 and never taken, which is why the painted and gold-leaf interiors survive as well as they do. The walls and moat went up between 1589 and 1594 under Karan Chand, prime minister to Rai…
Khejarla Fort rises directly out of granite boulders near Jodhpur, its red sandstone walls carved with latticework friezes and jharokha balconies in a style typical of Marwar Rathore thikana forts.…
Khimsar Fort sits on the edge of the Thar Desert between Jodhpur and Bikaner, its heavy bastions and double-layered walls built as a purely military garrison for two centuries before a mid-18th-cen…
Kumbhalgarh, a UNESCO-listed Mewar fort in the Aravalli Hills, is famed for its immense perimeter wall, which stretches roughly 36 km and is often called the second-longest continuous wall in the w…
Lohagarh — the "Iron Fort" — stands in Bharatpur behind a wide moat and earthen ramparts that proved harder to breach than any masonry wall. Its two main gateways, the eight-metalled Ashtadhatu Gat…
Founded around 1459 by Rao Jodha of the Rathore clan, though most of what stands is seventeenth-century work by his successors — a hundred and twenty metres above the city, spread across twelve hun…
Rajasthan's only hill station, at 1,220 metres on a granite plateau in the Aravallis, and it exists largely because Gujarati and Rajasthani families need somewhere cool in May. Dilwara is the reas…
Ahhichatragarh — the "Fort of the Hooded Cobra" — spans 36 acres in Nagaur, its palaces still carrying original period furniture, objects and wall paintings after one of India's most sustained fort…
Nahargarh Fort stands on the Aravalli ridge above Jaipur, one of three forts — with Amber and Jaigarh — built to ring and defend the city. Unlike Amber's palace grandeur, Nahargarh was built as a r…
Neemrana Fort Palace steps down a hillside in the Aravallis in twelve tiers, a 15th-century Chauhan-dynasty fort that stood in ruin for decades after 1947 before being restored into one of India's …
Pushkar is an ancient, sacred pilgrimage town curled peacefully around the perimeters of the natural, sacred Pushkar Lake. Flanked by the rugged hills of the Aravalli range near Ajmer, it ranks as …
The Ranakpur Jain Temple, set in a quiet Aravalli valley, is a 15th-century marble masterpiece dedicated to Adinath, the first Tirthankara. Famed for its forest of 1,444 individually carved marble …
A tenth-century Chauhan fort standing inside the tiger reserve, founded under Sapaldaksha and added to by the kings who followed him. It sits high enough to give the clearest view there is over the…
Taragarh rises on a steep hill directly above Bundi's old city, its massive battlements and bastions built in a style Incredible India's own listing describes as blending Rajput military architectu…
Jalore Fort rises on a rocky hill above Jalore town in southwestern Rajasthan, known historically by the names Kanchangiri and Swarngiri ("golden hill"). A stone inscription dated 1238 CE, cited by…
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