Luxury/Expensive (US$50-150 plus per room night) Jaipur has a good range of clean, civilised places to stay at all levels. Far and away the best hotel is the Taj Group’s Rambagh Palace (tel 521241, tlx 0365-2254 and 2147, fax 0141-521098) ...
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Jaipur is a shopper’s paradise, even for Indian people. They come here from all over the country, to buy tie-and-dye bandhini bed linen, handwoven blankets, dhurrie, mirror-inlaid bangles, enamelled and blue pottery, gold and silver jewellery. Most of these things ...
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Nawab Sahib Ki Haveli-Hawa Mahal-Amber Palace-Gaitor- Jantar Mantar-City Palace and Museum This tour starts in the heart of the old city, at the high 18th-century merchant’s ho :se called Nawab Sahib Ki Haveli. The remarkable panoramic views of the whole ...
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Air Indian Airlines has daily flights between Jaipur and Ahmedabad (Rs1083), Aurangabad (Rs1221), Bombay (Rs1848), Delhi (Rs646), Jodhpur (Rs767), and Udaipur (16767). Flights to Agra operate during the winter months. There is also a flight to wad from Calcutta via ...
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Surrounded on three sides by the rugged Aravali hills, Jaipur is the picturesque capital of Rajasthan. It takes its name from the prince, soldier and astronomer J Singh II, who moved his capital here in 1727. The old capital, Amber ...
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Nepal’s park and reserves fall in all faunal and geographical zones and because of the physical difficulties of communication, all present problems for the tourist. The grandeur and elegance, the savagery of the Himalaya and the tranquility of the terai ...
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SRI LANKA Apart from the Wilpattu and Yala National Parks, Sri Lanka has a relatively large area of protected wilderness compared to the other countries of South Asia. Assistance in booking accommodation in the parks can be obtained at The ...
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WEST BENGAL: Stretching from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal, the narrow strip forming West Bengal includes a range of climates and diversity of habitat. Sharing a language, history and culture with Bangladesh, Bengal is both tradition-bound and in ...
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UTTAR PRADESH: This huge state ranges from the High Himalaya to the Gangetic Plain. It is densely populated, with a population larger than any country in Europe, but it nevertheless has an important and vast range of wilderness areas. The ...
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TAMIL NADU: The parks of Tamil Nadu are mostly little-known, although their range is extraordinary—mixed deciduous forests of the Western Ghats, through the hot, dry plains, to the coastal and marine parks. Two biosphere reserves are proposed: one at the ...
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