Jhunjhunu, Jaipur travel info

	Jhunjhunu, Jaipur travel info
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Buses from the government stand in the south of town run to Nawalgarh (every 30min; 40min-1hr) and towns throughout Shekhawati, as well as to Bikaner (5 daily; 5hr 30min), Jaipur (every 30min; 5hr) and Delhi. The stand for private buses is east of the main bazaar; tempos and shared auto-rickshaws run between the two via Gandhi Chowk.

Four train services arrive at the station on the southern edge of town from Sikar via Nawalgarh (three of them from Jaipur, and there are four services running the other way from Loharu (one of which starts in Delhi), but they get in at inconvenient times of the night, or else are passenger trains that are slower than buses.

The local tourist office, attached to the RTDC Tourist Bungalow, occupies a new building on the western outskirts that's amazingly large considering it has nothing more to offer visitors than maps of other places. Jhunjhunu is quite spread out, and walking around can be tiring, but many of the streets of the old town are too narrow for cars; rickshaws operate as taxis, picking up as many passengers as they can.

Bicycles can be rented from a small shop near the park in the south. Taxis to explore further afield gather at a rank outside the bus stand, costing around Rs4 per kilometer.

The best budget accommodation is the Hotel Sangam (phone 01592/32544; Rs100-200), which has clean, spacious rooms. It's set back from the bus stand, so doesn't get the noise that infiltrates the nearby Naheen (phone 01592/32527; Rs100-200), which is pretty basic.

Further east, the Shiv Shekhawati (phone 01592/32651, fax 32603; Rs400-600), is a much smarter, well-maintained hotel with large, clean rooms, a restaurant and relaxing lawn; nearby, on a hilltop overlooking the eastern edge of town, the same owner has opened the more swanky Jamuna Resort (phone 01592/32871, fax 32603; Rs600-900, popular with Delhi-ites for its pool and panoramic views.

A less pretentious alternative on the south side of Jhunjhunu is the Shekhawati Heritage (phone 01592/35727; Rs300-600), which has a range of plain but comfortable rooms tucked away in a quiet residential suburb.

With the exception of the Sangam and Naheen, all of the above hotels have good restaurants attached to them that are the best places to eat in town. There are also the usual rows of cheap food stalls concentrated around the bus stand, and basic sit-down joints such as Nehru's Hotel in Gandhi Chowk.