Ranked by how much each place adds to a visit, with realistic visiting times, opening hours and ticket prices.
9 places · showing 1–9
1
The largest palace complex in Rajasthan, built over 400 years by successive Mewar rulers and still partly a royal residence.
2
The artificial lake at the heart of the city, best experienced from the water an hour before sunset with the palaces turning gold.
3
The stepped ghat on the western shore that gives the postcard view of the City Palace and Lake Palace — free, and best at sunset.
4
A hilltop palace inside a wildlife sanctuary, built to watch the monsoon clouds and now the best sunset view over the lakes.
5
A restored 18th-century lakeside mansion with period rooms, a turban gallery and the city's best folk dance show every evening.
6
An Indo-Aryan temple of 1651 to Vishnu, up a flight of 32 steps in the middle of the old city and busy with evening aarti.
7
The city's second lake, with a lakeside promenade that locals treat as an evening living room, plus Nehru Garden on its island.
8
A garden of fountains, lotus pools and marble pavilions built for the queen's forty-eight attendants.
9
A living crafts village on the city's edge with huts from four western states, resident artisans and a winter craft fair.