Kanak Vrindavan Mahal - Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Art was a palace once, things great and fair,

And strong and holy, found a temple there.

~ Richard Le Gallienne

Kanak Vrindavan is a garden in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. It is built in a valley surrounded by Aravali hills and is located on the way to the Amer Fort at the bottom of the Nahargarh hill. The place is approx 8 km north of the Jaipur city.

TOUR OF RAJASTHAN, India

By train : Goa to Jaipur.

Tour of Rajasthan: in a Toyota Qualis.
Return to Goa from Jaipur by train.


Our tour of Rajasthan started in Jaipur, and went in an anti-clockwise direction:
Jaipur - Bikaner - Jaisalmer - Jodhpur - Udaipur - Chittaurgarh - Ajmer

With sincere thanks to our Lourdes & Leo Kapoor without whom this trip would have not be possible. Also our sincere thanks go out to their families for their warmth and welcome along the way in Jodhpur, Udaipur and Ajmere. They indeed made our holiday a very special one and extremely enjoyable. We will remember it for a long time to come.

Jaipur to Bikaner

via Sikar

335 Km  6 hrs

NH 52 and NH 11

Bikaner to Jaisalmer

via Phalodi, Pokran, Bhadriya

330 km  6 hrs

NH 11

Jaisalmer to Jodhpur

via Chandan, Pokran, Dechu

250 Km  5 hrs

NH 11, NH 125

Jodhpur to Udaipur

Via Rohat, Pali, Nadol, Rajsamand, Nathdwara

250 km  5 hrs

NH 62, NH 58

Udaipur to Chittorgarh

Via Debari, Bhatewar, Menar, Mangalwad, Bhadsora, Ghosunda

150 km  3 hrs

NH 27, NH 48

Chittorgarh to Ajmer

via Gangarar, Bhilwara, Banera, Raila, Bhinai, Nasirabad

200 km  4 hrs

Nh48

Rajasthan is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert (Thar Desert), which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with Pakistan. The state is bordered by Pakistan to the west, Gujarat to the southwest, Madhya Pradesh to the southeast, Uttar Pradeshand Haryana to the northeast and Punjab to the north. Rajasthan covers an area of 132,150 sq mi or 342,239 km². The proportion of the state's total area to the total area of the country is 10.41 per cent.

 Jaipur is the capital and the largest city of the state. Geographical features include the Thar Desert along north-western Rajasthan and the termination of the Ghaggar River near the archaeological ruins at Kalibanga of the Indus Valley Civilization, which are the oldest in the Indian subcontinent discovered so far.

One of the world's oldest mountain ranges, the Aravalli Range, cradles the only hill station of Rajasthan, Mount Abu, famous for Dilwara Temples, a sacred pilgrimage for Jains. Eastern Rajasthan has the world famous Keoladeo National Park near Bharatpur, famous for its bird life and is a World Heritage Site and two famous national tiger reserves, Ranthambore and Sariska Tiger Reserve. Rajasthan was formed on 30 March 1949, when all erstwhile princely states ruled by Rajputs, known as Rajputana, merged into theDominion of India.
- Wikipedia

Enchanting Jaipur

It has been a great and yet another nostalgic journey from Goa to Jaipur. We have been more than lucky in many ways. To miss a train is one thing, but to be able to find a subsequent one completely empty to board in just over an hour's wait is another story. There are the forts of Bikaner that I will always remember, sounds of the cities that I will always hear, winding pathways, roadways and the camel rides through the deserts of Jaisalmer, jokes and stories way past midnight in Kishingarh, the never-ending and winding shortcuts through the narrow roadways from Jodhpur to Jaipur via Nadol, stops at the wayside restaurants, and making notes of mileage and travel distances. The cameras kept on clicking away throughout the trip - of forts, towns, sunsets and bare 'neem' trees, and peacock and deer as we drove through the desert of Western Rajasthan.