Description

Discover the best of ancient Jaipur on a half-day tour of the most beautiful landmarks of the city. You'll begin at The City Palace Museum, a former royal residence partly converted into a museum. A small portion is still used by the Royal family of Jaipur whilst one of the most fascinating attractions in the museum is the Armoury Museum housing an impressive array of weaponry-pistols, blunderbusses, flintlocks, swords, rifles and daggers. You'll have the chance to see the most famous landmark in Jaipur, a series of pink sandstone screens constructed so that the ladies of the palace could watch the royal processions without being seen by any outsider. Finally, you'll visit the largest stone observatory in the world built by Sawai Jai Singh, where you'll learn all about the history of this fascinating place and the founder's great admiration of developments in science and technology.