India's largest state, Rajasthan, emerged after Partition from a mosaic of eighteen feudal kingdoms, known in the British era as Rajputana, "Land of Kings".

In no Indian nature reserve are you guaranteed a tiger sighting, but at Ranthambore National Park, 10km west of the rail junction and market town of Sawai Madhopur, the odds are probably better than anywhere else.

Running northeast from Mount Abu, near the border with Gujarat, to within a stone's throw of the ruins of ancient Delhi, its backbone is formed by the bare brown hills of the Aravalli Range, which divide the fertile Dhundar basin from the shifting sands and khejri -covered flats of the mighty Thar Desert, one of the driest places on earth.

A flamboyant showcase of Rajasthani architecture, the Pink City of Jaipur has long been established on tourist itineraries as the third corner of India's "Golden Triangle", just 300km southwest of Delhi and 200km west of Agra.

On the eastern fringe of the Thar Desert, Jodhpur, dubbed "the Blue City" after the color-wash of its old town houses, sprawls across the arid terrain, overlooked by the mighty Meherangarh fort, more...

 

Jaipur | Ajmer, Bikaner, Taragarh | Udaipur, Chittaurgarh |
Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Mount Abu , Pushkar

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by Cecilia dos Guimaraes Bastos

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Pictures of Rajasthan
by Cecilia dos Guimaraes Bastos

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