Outside the Pink City.

	Outside the Pink City
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A handful of museums, temples and cenotaphs, scattered around Jaipur's less congested suburbs, offer welcome respite from the relentless traffic and crowds of the Pink City.

The Albert Hall museum , housed in a grand British building that somewhat eclipses the collection inside, presides over a swathe of formal parkland, the Ram Niwas Public Gardens , south of the centre near the Museum of Indology, home to a fascinating hoard of quirky Indian artifacts. As a target for day walks out of town, the hilltop "Tiger Fort" at Nawalgarh, overlooking Jaipur from the rocky ridge north of the Pink City, is a strenuous option.

Offering equally impressive views over the eastern fringes of the city, the old pilgrims' path to Galta, passing the "monkey temple" en route to a famous Hindu bathing tank, is less strenuous, although correspondingly more popular. Gaitor, where Jaipur's royal family have erected marble memorial chhatris, is best visited on the way to Amber.