General Information :
Area : 23.3 sq. kms.
Clothing: Summer : Light Tropicals Winter : Woolens
Season: Winter : Oct. - March Summer : April - June
Language: Rajasthani, Hindi & English

This famous city the capital of Rajasthan and has earned universal name as the 'Pink City', and pink it is, with beautiful constructed palaces, havelis and forts. Tall, rugged men with handle bar whiskers sport bright pink turbans. Jaipur which means the City of Victory was built exactly 269 years back and is 262km by road from Delhi A strong wall encircles the old city and even today has a suggestion of formidable strength, its function of protecting all within is obvious. The plains of Rajasthan of which Jaipur is the capital once thundered and echoed with the clash of swords and the drums of war. Built in 1727 by Sarai Jai Singh-II, Jaipur was the first planned city of its time (the earlier planned city in Northern India having been built near Taxila sometime in the 2nd century BC) Jaipur was planned by Vidyadhr Bhattacharya, a Bengali architect, in a grid system with wide straight roads, streets and uniform rows of shops on either side of the bazaars arranged in nine rectangular city sectors. The city it self is an attractive creation worthy of universal admiration. There is a feast in store for the tourist. Attractive monuments where one can breathe the proud palaces of kings, parks, gardens and excursions of nearby places of interest make Jaipur a tourist's paradise.

Jaipur is famous for stone, gems and jewellary. The walled city is a mosaic of people colours, shops and more colour. Most of the emporium in Jaipur is keeping all varieties of gems and jewellary according to test and budget of tourist. Walk down Johari Bazar with its jewellary stores, and dealers of precious and semiprecious stones. 'Haldiyon ka rasta' for gems and jewellary.

Air: Jaipur is a popular tourist destination and is well connecting by Air from Delhi, Jodhpur, Udaipur and Bombay. Indian Air Lines, Jet Airways, Sahara Airlines and Alliance Air Lines is operating daily and weekly flights.
Sanganer Airport is 15 km from city.

Rail: Jaipur is connected by Rail with important trains on its principal networks. From Delhi these includes: Shatabdi Express takes Four & a half hrs.

Road: From Delhi A/c and Deluxe Coaches leave for Jaipur on regular basis. By road it is 5 hrs. journey from Delhi and 4 hrs. journey from Agra. Jaipur is well connected from all important cities from Rajasthan.

Road Distances:
Jaipur is connected by an extensive network of roads with major cities of India. Some of the important distances are:

Agra	232 km
Ajmer	138 km
Bharatpur	174 km
Bundi :	210 km
Delhi	259 km
Mandawa	168 km
Sariska	105 km