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Rajasthan tourism is dotted and dominated by amazing legends of heroism that are Rajasthanreflected in its rugged forts and palaces, intricately carved temples, mansions and museums. Rajasthan tourism is unparalleled and peerless that invigorated the imagination of the tourists coming from all parts of the world for its classical heritage tour, culture, fairs and festivals, safari tour, adventurous tourism, forts and palaces or heritage hotels, pilgrim places, wildlife sanctuaries, crafts, folk music and dance, paintings and sculpture, Palace on Wheels etc. Rajasthan is one of the states of Indian Union with its capital city of Jaipur famous as Pink City of India situated in the north-western part of India and is surrounded by Punjab and Uttar Pradesh to the north, Gujarat to the south, Madhya Pradesh to the east and international border with Pakistan to the west.

Rajasthan Tourist Attractions Tourism in Rajasthan India is regarded as the hub of tourist attractions that comprised of shimmering deserts, impregnable fortress and palaces, picturesque lakes etc. The famous attractions of Rajasthan tourism are Hawa Mahal, Jantar Mantar, City Palace, Amber Fort, Nahargarh Fort, Central Museum, Jaigarh Fort, Kanak Valley all in Jaipur - the Pink City of India. Other places of interest of Rajasthan tourism are the City Palace Museum, Lake Pichola, Meharan Garh Fort, Umaid Bhawan Palace, Pushkar, Ranthambore wildlife, Sahelion Ki Bari, Shrinathji Temple, Mehrangarh Fort, Jaswant Thada etc.

Rajasthan Fairs and Festivals The state of Rajasthan is reflecting the vibrant and exotic culture of India tourism where endless process of fairs and festivals are celebrated in almost all months of the year in one area or other. Fairs and festivals of Rajasthan even attracted the foreign tourists to explore the hidden heritage of Rajasthan tourism which are combinedly reflected in the form of dancing, singing, drama, devotional music and other community activities. However, some of the famous fairs and festivals of Rajasthan are Nagaur Fair in Nagaur is an animal fair; Desert Festival in Jaisalmer is a journey towards the heart of desert; Baneshwar Fair is religious and traditional fair of Baneshwar; Gangaur Fair in Jaipur is devoted to Goddess Parvati; Mewar Festival in Udaipur welcomes the spring season; Elephant Festival in Jaipur is to celebrate Holi; Urs Ajmer Sharif in Ajmer celebrated in the memory of the revered Sufi saint Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti and Pushkar Fair in Ajmer is a cattle fair marked with largest participation of all the festivals of Rajasthan. Some other festivals of Rajasthan are Summer Festival in Mt.Abu, Teej festival in Jaipur, Marwar Festival inRajasthan Wildlife Jodhpur, Camel Festival in Bikaner, Marwar Festival in Jodhpur etc.

Rajasthan Wildlife Tourism Rajasthan tourism is also regarded as the one of the major tourist hubs of wildlife tourism of India. Besides the images depicted in the minds of domestic and international tourists about Rajasthan as a place of forts, palaces, festivals and lakes, Rajasthan tourism also boasts three national parks and over a dozen of wildlife sanctuaries. Among the famous parks and wildlife sanctuaries, Ranthambore National Park is one of the most picturesque national parks in India located on a hill top near the Thar Desert of Rajasthan and surrounded by Vindhya and the Aravalli foothills. Ranthambore National Park or Rajasthan wildlife tourism is famous all over the world for tiger reserve under Project Tiger. Other famous parks of Rajasthan wildlife tourism are Keoladeo Ghana National Park also known as Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary is one of the world's greatest heronries and the Sariska Tiger Reserve situated in the backdrop of the Aravali Hills. Rajasthan wildlife tourism offers various spots to navigate its famous wildlife sanctuaries and parks of Rajasthan tourism like Bhensrod Garh Sanctuary, Darrah wildlife Sanctuary, Desert National Sanctuary, Jaisamand Sanctuary, Kumbhalgarh Sanctuary, Mount Abu Sanctuary and Gajner Wildlife Sanctuary etc.

Famous Cities of Rajasthan The cities of Rajasthan still echo the past glory of the princely states of Rajasthan which are reflected in their magnificent forts, palaces, temples and mansions. However, each city of Rajasthan has been characterized for its distinctive features which are unique in themselves. Some of the famous cities of Rajasthan that attract the tourist while they explore the Indian tourism are Jaipur which is popularly known as the Pink City of India also famous for City Palace, Amer Fort and Hawa Mahal; Jodhpur which is known as the Blue City because of the blue painted walls of the houses; Udaipur known by various names like “White City”, “City of Lakes” and “Venice of East” which is famous for its lakes, palaces - Lake Palace Hotel; Jaisalmer also known as the “Golden City” famous for its golden fort, made of sandstone; Dungarpur which is known as the City of Hills famous for Juna Mahal; Ajmer is famous for Dargah of Khwaja Mu'in-ud-din Chisti and Ana Sagar Lake. Some other famous cities of Rajasthan are Chittorgarh, Pushkar, Alwar, Banswara, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Bundi, Jhalawar, Kota, Kumbalgarh, Mount Abu, Nathdwara, Ranakpur, Sariska, Ranthambore, Rajasthan FortShekhawati etc. that attracted the tourists to explore the hidden beauty of these cities of Rajasthan.

Rajasthan Forts and Palaces The land of Rajasthan is “a land of valiance and chivalry” endowed with magnificent forts and palaces. Some of the palaces of Rajasthan are converted into the heritage hotels that still give the experience of royal life of the past. These forts and palaces of Rajasthan are also popular among the tourists of the world for its marvelous architecture. The famous forts and palaces of Rajasthan are Taragarh Fort in Kota, Junagadh Fort in Bikaner, Chittorgarh Fort in Chittorgarh, Amber Fort near Jaipur, Jaigarh Fort in Jaipur, Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, Golden Fort or Sonar Kila in Jaisalmer etc. The famous palaces of Rajasthan are Amer Palace in Jaipur, City Palace in Jaipur, City Palace in Udaipur etc. that attract the tourists to explore the history of Rajasthan.















Archaeology of Rajasthan
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Dances of Rajasthan
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Lakes in Rajasthan
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Museums in Rajasthan
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People of Rajasthan
Pilgrimage in Rajasthan
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Sand Dunes of Rajasthan
Thar Desert Rajasthan
Rajasthan Wildlife
Chittorgarh Excursions

Cairn India touched an intraday high of Rs 309.70 and an intraday low of Rs 307.30. At 09:16 hrs the share was quoting at Rs 309, up Rs 3.95, or 1.29%.

The company has started delivering crude via pipeline from Rajasthan. The Rajasthan block crude current output stands at 60,000 bbl/day. Rajasthan crude sales are seen up to 1.25 lakh bbl/day in H2. The company is in pact with 4 buyers to sell 1.43 lakh bbl/day crude, reports CNBC-TV18.

It was trading with volumes of 92,210 shares. Yesterday the share closed up 0.10% or Rs 0.30 at Rs 305.05.

The terrible cyclone "Phet" converted to plain Strong wind force as it slipped into India Rajasthan coastal desert area on Monday after taking a toll on more than 15 lives and injured dozens and thousands were on the streets in the coastal belt in southern Pakistan .

"The cyclone is over," says Director of Meteorological Department Qamaruz Zaman Chaudhry. "It is reduced to a wind pressure."

"Now the fishermen sailing in the ocean to catch fish," said Chaudhry, declare the coastal waters safe for navigation, while eliminating the possibility of further rain in the southern Sindh province. But he said the eastern Punjab province would get rain the next 24 hours.

Heavy rain and wind lashed Karachi and other coastal cities Sunday, killing at least 15 people, most of them electrocuted, and injured several others, when cyclone swirling along its coast.

Life is paralyzed in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, 15 million inhabitants, and in Hyderabad, the second largest city in Sindh province, and in smaller cities like Thatta and Keti Bandar along the coast of Pakistan in Sindh and Balochistan southwestern province.

Coastal Stock Route in Baluchistan have been washed away, freezing of moving traffic while the network in Sindh has also been eroded by heavy rains that unleashed as "Phet" brim brushed Pakistan at the weekend.

In a country experiencing break the power crisis, life in the cities turned bad as most of the areas are without light for the last 20 to 36 hours, according to local media. While the 2-3 feet in standing water in the streets presenting a river scene that the delicate drainage system was seriously damaged. Medical experts fear that it would generate epidemics.

Results of both sank in the ocean's natural coastal harbor newly built Gwadar in Balochistan.An early warning moored majority of fishing boats in both provinces, which struck the livelihood of hundreds of families.

Over 100,000 villagers have been rescued to safety in relief camps in the two provinces, while a battalion of Pakistani soldiers carry out rescue operation in Balochistan, where intense rainfall of 300 millimeters washed away hundreds of homes. Some areas in Karachi received rainfall of up to 128 mm, while the rest of Sindh experienced from 1940 to 1986 mm rainfall, according to Pakistani media.

Three battalions of the military were called Sunday, which is engaged in rescue in the worst affected coastal areas of Sindh has declared to the red zone from Thatta to Umerkot of Sindh province government.

A Pakistani military C-130 aircraft and two helicopters involved in rescue and relief operations in Balochistan, "said a spokesman for the Army Inter-Services Public Relations on Monday.

The fatal spinning "Phet" generated in the Indian Ocean a week ago and queue to a category four cyclone, but reduced to Category 2 before hitting Oman to take 16 lives on Saturday. It further reduced to a category that narrow Baluchistan. Further reduction to a tropical storm status it brushed the port city of Karachi before met in Sindh's coastal areas on Sunday.

In 1992 a cyclone killed 450 people and displaced 200,000 people in Thatta, about 100 km east of Karachi. In 1999, around 700 people missing and hundreds of coastal villages were flooded east of Karachi, when a storm hit Pakistan. A tropical storm floods destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes in Baluchistan in June 2007.