Day 3:
After breakfast,visiting to Amber Fort on elephant back.
Afternoon city tour includes Hawa Mahal,Jantarmantar(
Observatory),City Palace.Poet king Sawai Pratap Singh built
this palace of winds. Hawa Mahal is the most easily recalled
landmarks of Jaipur and is also its icon. Located in the city Palace it is best
viewed from the outside for the palace is really a facade. This five-storey
building overlooking the busy bazaar street is a stunning example of Rajput
architecture and artistry with its pink delicately honeycombed 953 sandstone
windows known as 'Jharokhas'. It was originally built for the ladies of the royal
household to watch everyday life and processions in the city from their veiled
comfort.Most people come here to get a view of the facade but they can also
climb to the top for a wonderful view from the latticed windows. Across the
road from the palaces is the famous JANTAR MANTAR one of the five
observatories in India. Built by Sawai Jai Singh, this is one of the largest and
the best preserved. A passionate hobby of the king in the field of Astronomy,
numerology, insighted him to execute this observatory and with the help of
ski l led labourers, they managed to create a col lect ion of complex
astronomical instruments chiselled out of stone and most of which continues
to provide accurate information to this day. The most striking instrument is the
Brihat Samrat yantra Sundial, an imposing yellow edifice to the far right of the
observatory complex which has a 27m high gnomon arm set at an angle of
27degree.The shadow this casts moves up to 4m in an hour, and aids in the
calculation of local and meridian pass time and various attributes of the
heavenly bodies, including declination the angular distance of a heavenly
body from the celestial equator and altitude. Albert HallLocated just outside
the walled city is the sprawling Ram Niwas garden, which has always been a
place for recreational activities since the reign of Sawai Ram Singh ji . This
exquisitely designed garden with force entry doors and a huge complex with
small pools and fountains, flourishing lawns and beautiful flower beds all
around was basically a famine relief project. It mostly attracted the British
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