
The landmarks in every guidebook — and the tours that tell you what guidebooks don't.
Jaipur was designed from scratch in 1727 by Sawai Jai Singh II, who commissioned architect Vidyadhar Bhattacharya to build a city according to Vastu Shastra principles -- the classical Hindu system of spatial geometry. It was one of India's first planned cities, laid out in a grid of broad avenues and walled districts. Then in 1876, to welcome the Prince of Wales, Maharaja Ram Singh II painted the entire old city a warm terracotta pink, and that color has defined it ever since.
The Hawa Mahal, the Palace of the Winds, is a five-story facade of 953 intricately latticed windows through which the ladies of the royal court could watch street life without being seen.
It is less a building than an elaborate screen, built in 1799 for a specific purpose and now one of the most photographed facades in India. The Amber Fort, eleven kilometers north on a hillside above Man Sagar Lake, was the seat of the Kachhwaha Rajput dynasty before Jaipur was built; its Sheesh Mahal (Hall of Mirrors) is decorated with millions of mirrored glass pieces that turn a single candle into a galaxy.

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