Rajasthan : Ancient forts, Lakes, Coloured cities and desert
Have you ever heard about a place having combination of ancient forts, beautiful lakes, desert and colour oriented cities ? If no, then here we bring you the answer to this question. In today's post, we will discuss about such a destination which will make you to visit rajasthan !
This wonderful place is rajasthan in india. It is specially famous for its ancient forts, desert, coloured cities and lakes. Rajastan is the largest province of india. It is located on the northwest side of india. Let us have a detailed info :
Forts
Forts in rajasthan have historical importance. Forts which are mostly visited are chittorgarh fort, amer fort, mehrangarh fort, jaisalmer fort, ranthambore fort, taragarh fort, kumbhalgarh fort etc. These forts have excellent designing and they describe ancient indian architecture.
Coloured cities
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Rajasthani cities are famous for their colour orientation. Headquarter city jaipur is known as 'pink city' as most of the houses are coloured as pink. While udaipur city is called white city for the same reason. Similarly, jodhpur is called blue city and bikaner is called red city.
Desert
Rajastan has a large arid desert called the great indian desert or thar desert. Thar desert covers the area of about 200,000 km square with being the 17th largest in the world. It is a natural border between india and pakistan. The Deseret contains nature reserves, wildlife centres,annual festivals etc.
Lakes
Rajasthan consists of some of the beautiful as well as resourceful lakes. Sambhar lake in rajasthan is the largest salt water lake of india. Some beautiful lakes are shakambari jeel, lake pichola, dhebar lake, pushkar lake, gadisar lake.
Architecture
Rajasthani architecture is mainly based on rajput cast theme. Ancient rajput rulers contributed immensly in the development of architecture. Some excellent examples of rajasthani architecture are hawa mahal, umaid bhawan palace, remains of bairat stupa, ranakpur jain temple, lalgarh palace, etc.
Rajasthan attracts many tourists because of this destinations. Hope you liked the post.
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