Ranked by how much each place adds to a visit, with realistic visiting times, opening hours and ticket prices.
11 places · showing 1–11
1
A hillside palace-fort of pale yellow and pink sandstone above Maota Lake, with a mirrored hall that lights up from a single candle.
2
The 1799 'palace of winds' — a five-storey screen of 953 latticed windows built so royal women could watch the street unseen.
3
The working royal residence at the centre of the old city, part museum, part private home, with textile and armoury collections and four…
4
The ridge fort above the city, built as a retreat and now the best place in Jaipur to watch the sun go down over the whole grid.
5
Sawai Jai Singh II's open-air observatory of nineteen masonry instruments, including the world's largest stone sundial, accurate to two…
6
The jewellers' bazaar of the old city — kundan, meenakari and loose gemstones, in shops that have been in the same families for…
7
A sandstone palace sitting in the middle of Man Sagar lake, four storeys of which are underwater — viewed from the shore, not entered.
8
A recreated Rajasthani village on the city's edge with folk dance, puppet shows, camel rides and an unlimited traditional thali.
9
Rajasthan's oldest museum in an Indo-Saracenic hall of 1887, holding carpets, miniatures, arms and an Egyptian mummy.
10
A symmetrical 16th-century stepwell near Amber with criss-crossing staircases on all four sides — small, free and startlingly photogenic.
11
A temple complex in a ravine east of the city, built around natural spring-fed tanks and populated by several hundred macaques.