The working royal residence at the centre of the old city, part museum, part private home, with textile and armoury collections and four famously photogenic doorways.
The standard ticket covers the museum courtyards. The separate Chandra Mahal tour into the private apartments is expensive but genuinely different.
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The ridge fort above the city, built as a retreat and now the best place in Jaipur to watch the sun go…