Holidays to Rajasthan
Holidays to Rajasthan have become such an iconic destination within India established over several decades of increasing tourism, that it would be hard to believe that any corner of it remains unknown or unvisited. And yet this fabulously colourful and unique province – almost the size of France – still harbours a fantastic range of little known delights. In the north-eastern corner of the state for example, is one of the most stunningly located fortresses a mere 2 hours cross-country from Ranthambhore and connected to it by a forest corridor. Less than 2 hours from the famed fort of Jodhpur is one of the most exquisite and historically important forts of India with its own splendid heritage hotel hosting a world festival of Sufi music and a very traditional cattle fair that is still barely known to visitors. And away from the rigidly regulated safaris of Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve is a wild landscape still inhabited by leopards, hyena, sloth bear, blackbuck antelope and colourful semi-nomadic shepherds that is a world away from the frenetic cities that anchor the Rajasthani tourism circuit. Surveying the world from the ramparts of one of the great forts overlooking the Chambal River, with nary a tourist in sight one would be hard put to believe that anybody had ever heard of Rajasthan.












