A sneak peek of the Pink City, Jaipur in 24 hours
What do you do when you get to know that your employer wants you to attend a 3 days long conference in the royal Pink City and the third day happens to be a Saturday !!?? The wanderlust in me resurfaced as I knew that I have the Sunday to myself and I can postpone my return for a day after the conference gets over. The conference got over by lunch on Saturday and post lunch I was absolutely free to explore the city on my own. Now the challenge here was just 24 hrs to myself and how much of Jaipur City I could squeeze in this limited time. So, this is how my itinerary was planned : Jantar Mantar Post lunch, I took an Uber and set out to see this astronomical marvel built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, which is very close to the City Palace, also known as Chandra Mahal. This place has the largest stone sundial of the world and has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. The observatory houses 19 geometric instruments ( jantar ), with which calculations (