India GOPlaces to visit near Jaipur
Ajmer
Rajasthan's great Sufi city gathers around the marble Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, where qawwali music and rose petals draw pilgrims of every faith. Lakeside pavilions sit below, and Pushkar waits just over the hill.
~130 km as the crow flies
Pushkar
A desert town wrapped around a sacred lake: the world's only Brahma temple, bathing ghats, and rooftop cafés looking over it all. Quiet and holy most of the year, until the legendary autumn camel fair fills it with colour.
~130 km as the crow flies
Govardhan
A low sandstone ridge nobody climbs, because the hill itself is what is worshipped: Krishna is said to have lifted it to shelter Braj, and the way to honour it is the 21 km walk around it. Tanks, sandstone pavilions and prasad stalls line the route; most people come over from Vrindavan or Mathura for the day.
~180 km as the crow flies
Mathura
On the banks of the Yamuna, the birthplace of Krishna: a warren of temples, ghats and bell-bright lanes that erupt into colour at Holi. The devotional heart of the Braj country, and one of India's most joyful Holi celebrations.
~200 km as the crow flies
Vrindavan
Krishna's boyhood country: some five thousand temples in a town of 85,000, the crush at Banke Bihari, the marble and light of Prem Mandir, quiet courtyards like Radha Raman where the ritual has not changed in centuries. Come in the cool months, and keep a hand on your glasses; the monkeys here are famous for taking them.
~200 km as the crow flies
Agra
Marble and red sandstone on one bend of the Yamuna: the Taj Mahal at dawn, the fort where Shah Jahan spent his last years looking at it, and the 'Baby Taj' whose inlay work the Taj borrowed. Most visitors leave by sunset; the old city's bazaars and petha shops reward those who stay.
~220 km as the crow flies
Delhi
Eight capitals stacked on one plain, and you can walk between them: a 12th-century victory tower, the Mughal tomb that taught the Taj its shape, colonial New Delhi's avenues, and the spice lanes of Chandni Chowk. Most trips to North India start here. Give it two days and it stops being just an airport.
~240 km as the crow flies
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