Excursion From Jaipur :
Excursions from Jaipur takes the travelers to the numerous towns and villages located near and around the city. You can embark on such excursions and check out the natural beauty, historical monuments, temples and shops of these places.Excursions from Jaipur will take you to paces like Abhaneri, Bagru, Samode, Karauli, Sanganer, Tonk and other places. These tours are extremely educational as one gets to learn a lot about Rajasthan as well as India. You can check out temples in Karauli or pay a visit to the Tiger Reserve in the Ranthambore National Park. These trips are filled with fun and excitement.For instance, you can go to Bagru. Located nearly 30 kilometers from Jaipur, this town is known for its handicrafts. In fact, the town is particularly famous for its wooden block prints. Traditional Bagru prints are famous throughout the country.You can also pay a visit to Abhaneri. It was originally know as Abhanagri. Here you can get to see the step wells that were invented by the locals for rainwater harvesting. Here you can also pay a visit to the Harshat Mata Temple. Harshat Mata is considered as the Goddess of Mirth and Happiness.Excursions from Jaipur are almost incomplete without paying a visit to the Ranthambore National Park. Here you can take a look at the Tiger reserve. Besides this, the area is also known for its natural beauty like the green grasslands, meadows and canals. Some of the wild animals that you get to see over here include langurs, leopards, hyenas, jackals, wild boars, bears and others. Going on excursions is a great way to explore the countryside. There are a large number of tour operators who organize such excursion from Jaipur. You can simply contact one of them and embark on such adventure tours. You are sure to have great time visiting these places.
Jaipur Excursion :
Sanganer
12 km on Tonk Road. It has beautiful Jain temples and important craft industries besides the ruined palaces, broken city walls, triple gateway and a neglected Mughal garden. Large and small units of block and screen printers produce some of the finest hand printed textile in the country.
Bagru
35 km south west on Ajmer road. The ground level fort is still in good shape. Its attraction is hand printed cloth industry. The designs are simpler here, the techniques less complicated and the colours of more earthly shades.
Ramgarh Lake
32 km north-east. It is famous for its huge artificial lake created by constructing a high bund amidst tree covered hills where the citizens throng in a large number for picnic during the rainy season. The temple of Jamwa Mata and the ruins of the old fort still reminds of its hoary antiquity.
Samode
40 km north-west. The old palace renovated and rebuilt provides the most gorgeously decorated and painted examples of Rajput haveli architecture. It provides an ideal spot for outing.
Bairath
86 km on the Shahpura-Alwar road. It contains the relics and structures of Mauranyas, Mugahl and Rajput periods. The excavated remains of a circular Buddhist temple, unique in Rajasthan and the earliest structural temple in India, make it an important historical place. Akabar the great, constructed a mint and his son Jahangir a beautiful Mughal garden and a remarkable monument with painted chatris and walls.
Abhaneri
128 km north-east off the Agra road near Bandikui. It is famous for the temple of Harshad Mata built in 7th-8th century and the stepped Chanda Baodi. Two Jain temples were built at a later period.
Sambhar
94 km west. It is famous for the country's largest inland salt lake. It is also known for holy Devayani tank, beautiful Shakambhari Devi temple, the palace and the nearby Naliasar. Sambhar lake is also famous for the illusion of water ( mirage ) during noon times.
