Every photograph here was taken on one of our own journeys, most of
them by Mukesh himself. There is not a single stock image on this page, which is
also why some of them are slightly crooked.
Amber Fort from Maota LakeThe classic view, from the lakeside below the ramp. Most people photograph it on the way up and again on the way down.Below Amber, with travellersMukesh on the terrace at Maota with guests from Europe. Photographs like this one are how the reviews get written.Panna Meena ka KundThe stepwell a few minutes from Amber. Symmetrical, deep, and almost never on a coach itinerary.Gaitore Ki Chhatriyan, JaipurThe marble cenotaphs of the Jaipur royal family. Ten minutes from the old city and usually empty.Sheesh Mahal, Amber FortThe mirror hall inside the fort. The panels were cut so that a few candles would light the whole room.The flower market, JaipurMarigolds by the sack, before six in the morning. It is worth the alarm, and it is ten minutes out of the way.Lunch in JaipurWhere to eat safely is not a small question on a trip to India. It comes up in the reviews more often than the monuments do.The Taj Mahal from across the YamunaThe side almost nobody sees, from the far bank in the late afternoon. No queue and no ticket.Itimad-ud-Daulah, AgraThe Baby Taj, built twenty years before the Taj Mahal and the first Mughal tomb in white marble.Mehrangarh, JodhpurThe walls were not built onto the cliff but cut out of it. In places you cannot tell where the rock ends.The blue city, JodhpurBrahmpuri from the fort ramparts. Late afternoon is when the indigo turns almost violet.Jaswant Thada, JodhpurA ten-minute walk from the fort gate. The marble is cut thin enough that in bright sun the panels glow.Inside MehrangarhCourtyard sandstone carved as fine as screenwork. Allow two to three hours for the fort, not one.Garlands on the first morningThe welcome most guests get before anyone has driven anywhere.A haveli in JaisalmerMerchant houses in the golden sandstone the whole city is built from, still lived in.A carved ceilingJain temple work, cut from a single block. Easy to walk past, hard to stop looking at.