A wonderful Place to Iravel in India - Rajasthan

Are you planning to visit India? If so, Rajasthan can be an alternative to visit. You shouldn' miss Rajasthan because this is the favorite place for foreign tourists to visit. The following is the description of Rajasthan.

Rajasthan – A wonderful place to travel

By idhamathur

ravel to Rajasthan – where the mystique of the desert beckons – isolated in time-wrap, yet pulsating with golden legacies of romance and valour. Turbaned men with proud moustaches and veiled beauties in gaily coloured costumes and heavy jewellery, overwhelm with their cheerfulness. Fairs and festivals only add colour to the bleak life of the barren desert and turn the land into a creative fertile basin.

Visit the capital of the colourful state – the passionate pink after the pretty wash on its buildings by Sawai Jai Singh – Jaipur, a diamond in the must-do tourist circuit of northern India. If you have traveller’s luck, you might see a polo match on your Jaipur trip.Welcome to the pleasant surprise amid brown desertscape, the alluring Lake City of Rajasthan. Climb to the top of the state, the only hill station of Rajasthan, Mount Abu. Visit the world famous Dilwara Jain Temples, known for their sculptural detail and intricate carvings. The Thar Desert Safari in Rajasthan has become a popular extravaganza among the tourists. Plan your holiday vacations in Rajasthan and explore the unvoiced pleasures associated with these safaris, a thrilling journey on the sands of time.

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India-Travel Guide: Spiritual Tourism and Ground Realities

Review: By Victor Cuthbert

This is a travel book breath - taking in its scope! The author is the founder-director of the Vedanic Research Centre in Dehradun, North India. The reader is taken on a tour of northern Indian states and cities, villages and quiet valleys, and hidden spots in the Himalayas. In delightful prose we explore from our armchair bustling towns. small villages, ancient cities, exotic temples. For the visitor to India these are arranged in a series of 21 tours , and the author opens up for them delightful places, often off the beaten track, with detailed information regarding travel, dress, hotels, trekking centres, lodges etc.

But not only that! This book is also about Spiritual Tourism, so the author also takes the reader through excepts of India's ancient wisdom via spiritual teachers of old, as well as contemporary ages and gurus, to glean wisdom as to how modern man can both face and overcome the delemmas faced by the modern world - such as terrorism, global warming - and the inability of man to solve these issues by themselves. The book includes interviews with spiritual leader as well as some appendices illustrating how far India has progressed in the realm of modern technology and, most importantly, the education of those who would otherwise be disadvantaged, through the efforts of Indian educational charitable foundations, helped by such Dr AP Ganguly's own Vedantic Research Centre at Dehradun. A book to enjoy over many readings!

India (Country Guide)

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
From Antarctica to Zimbabwe, if you're going there chances are Lonely Planet has been there first. With a pithy and matter-of-fact writing style, these guides are guaranteed to calm the nerves of first-time world travelers, while still listing off-the-beaten-path finds sure to thrill even the most jaded globetrotters. Lonely Planet has been perfecting its guidebooks for nearly 30 years and as a result, has the experience and know-how similar to an older sibling's "been there" advice. The original backpacker's bible, the LP series has recently widened its reach. While still giving insights for the low-budget traveler, the books now list a wide range of accommodations and itineraries for those with less time than money.

Explore the myriad wonders of India with this useful guide in hand. Whether you wish to cruise the backwaters of Kerala on the rooftop of a ferry, explore the Buddhist gompas of Leh, drink Darjeeling's namesake tea, get lost in the dusty bazaars of Hyderabad, or stroll the 16th-century ruins in Hampi, this book will help you get there. Highlights include more than 200 traveler-tested maps, thousands of places to stay and eat for all budgets, excellent health information, all you need to know about transportation options, and a 32-page color section on India's religions. --Kathryn True --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review: By Denis Benchimol Minev "Amazonia"

It is almost a crime to try to fit a great country such as India into a one volume guidebook. However, being such the understandable proposition -- tourists are unlikely to want to carry many guides -- this guidebook does a very nice job of putting it all together.

There are very interesting historical section which are often deeper than what one would get from a local tourist guide. It covers all the major attractions (at least in the places I visited) and gives the tourist a good idea about the culture, history and socio-economic conditions of the places being visited. The list of hotels, restaurants and places to go out at night is quite current, as of July 2006.

It is the only guidebook I used in India, so I cannot compare, but this is quite a good guide that is unlikely to let you down.

The Rough Guide to India 6 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

Description
The Rough Guide to India is the essential handbook to this extraordinary country. The 24 page full-colour introduction includes stunning photography of the country''s many highlights. The guide has comprehensive accounts of every attraction, from fast-paced Delhi and the sacred sites of the Ganges plain to the Moghul splendour of Agra and the shell-sand beaches of the south. There is also practical advice on activities as diverse as boating through the Keralan backwaters, hiking through the high-altitude deserts of Ladakh or treatments at an ayurvedic spa. The listings sections provide hundreds of insider reviews of the best hotels, hostels, restaurants, bars, shops and museums in every city and village. The authors also give an informed insight into India''s history, politics, religion, music and cinema, providing a valuable context to the reader''s trip.

Review : By Nowhere Man "Nowhere Man
I should begin by saying that I traveled around India with the fourth edition of the Rough Guide. Though I cannot comment on how updates and revisions may affect the utility of this particular version, I feel quite confident in recommending the Rough Guide over any other guidebook in the market.

My approach to travel has always been one of depth over breadth, cultural authenticity over the latest tourist craze. After spending 2 years in Senegal as a Peace Corps Volunteer, I went to India believing that I might somehow have the same ease of access to village life and cultural events that I had in West Africa. That belief was quickly dispelled, though I came to find many other redeeming qualities to travel and to life in India. In total, I have spent about one year in the country and have relied on my Rough Guide in many, many ways.

There is absolutely no way to compare the depth of historical context and cultural insight given by the Rough Guide with what you may find in Lonely Planet or other guidebooks to India. I frequently borrowed Lonely Planet guides from other travelers to compare its recommendations with the ones I found in my Rough Guide. I consistently found the Lonely Planet to be poorly researched, to offer extremely limited background information, and to eliminate many sites/entries of more obscure or esoteric value to the traveler. It would be incredibly difficult to stick to the Lonely Planet and not be one of the millions of blind backpackers circumnavigating the globe thinking they are actually seeing something. The Rough Guide, in comparison, offered countless 'text-box' entries describing the complexities of modern-day life in India. A few that come to mind dealt with drug use, journalism, organized crime, education, et al.

If you expect to spend a significant amount of time in India, you will want to know as much cultural information as possible in order to decipher the circus of events going on around you. In many ways you will be marginalized and will struggle to ever feel like you could possibly belong in the place. This of course is the love-hate relationship that nearly every foreigner who spends enough time there will eventually develop. That being said, your status as outsider will allow you to observe and analyze the country in ways that will teach you volumes about your own native land and culture. My Rough Guide proved to be an indispensable companion on trains and in hotels. It gave me the right combination of thorough logistical information for travel necessities and in-depth cultural information for personal ones. Use your Rough Guide to the fullest and get ready to see how much you can love and hate a place at the same time..