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| RAJASTAN.. The land of Kings |
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Rajasthan, the land
of the kings, is India’s most colour-charged state. Half desert,
half bony hills, the everyday is shot with searing colour- brilliant
fabrics flash like flames against the stark landscape. You’ll
experience these saturated shocks of colour everywhere- a sea of turbans
clustered under a village tree, rural women in traditional dress,
saris drying on a parched riverbed. Like a legend come to life, the
state is picked with magical towns and cities; sky-blue Jodhpur; Jaipur;
painted dusky pink; Jaisalmer, a golden sandcastle; Udaipur, shimmering
bone-white; and Pushkar, clinging around its holy lake. |
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| The whimsical, magnificent
palaces and forts are products of the Rajput’s- warrior clans
and feudal lords who dominated Rajasthan for centuries, living by
ancient, violent codes of chivalry and death before dishonour. A collection
of small, fierce kingdoms, each supported vast forts, epic palatial
complexes and the incredible lifestyles of the maharajas.Today Rajasthan
remains dominated by its past, a feudal state with a largely rural
population. The land is harsh and frequent droughts makes scratching
a living harder and harder. The pre-eminence and extravagance of the
Rajput princes that created such a beguiling, mythological state,
with so much to offer the visitor, has also contributed to traveling
back in time. The state is diagonally divided into the hilly southeastern region and the barren north- western. Thar Dessert, which extends across |
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| Different places to visit The border into Pakistan. Jaipur Ranthambore Pushkar Bikaner Jaisalmer Jodhpur Udaipur All tours to Rajasthan tailor made. |
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