Mandawa is an open air art gallery of beautiful castles and stunning havelis(Villa) also a capital city of Shekhawati region which is about 257 km from Delhi and 190 km from Jaipur in the northeast part of Rajasthan. The showcase of the finest specimen of frescoes, murals paintings city was founded in the mid of 18th century by Bhojraj Ji Kasubsub clan of Shekhawat Rajputs.
This city was a historical en-route trading outpost for several ancient caravans from Middle East and China so the inhabited by rich merchant families paved the way to built many Havelis like Hanuman Prasad Goenka Haveli, Goenka Double Haveli, Murmuria Haveli, Jhunjhunwala Haveli, Mohan Lal Saraf Haveli, Gulab Rai Ladia Haveli and many more.
The fascinating temple is very famous for its unique erotic sculpture which is about 620 km from New Delhi. It’s not only one temple but the whole area in the center state of Madhya Pradesh of India. History shows that originally there were 85 temples, of which only 22 still exist now and these temples were constructed between 950 and 1050 A.D. during the reign of Chandel Empire.
The first planned city according to ancient Indian Bastu Sastra was founded by a Rajput king, Sawai Jai Singh II in AD 1727, located west of Delhi on the desert of Rajastan. These days, Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan which is popularly known as the Pink City symbolizes 'welcome' and was adopted during the times of the ruler Ram Singh II when he received the Prince of Wales in 1876. The magnificent forts, impressive palaces, vivacious temples, multicolored bazaars, pulsating streets, many ethnicity festivals and unforgettable hot-humid summer are attracting tourist around the world. Jaipur is 260 kms from Delhi and 236 kms from Agra.
Lotus Temple, a particular architectural masterpiece of the modern engineering and architecture, is among the most visited monuments in India, located at Kalkaji in New Delhi, was completed in 1986 and the credit goes for this beautiful Remarkable Architecture structure to the Persian architect Fariborz Sahba from Canada.
The Qutub Minar is a fluted red sandstone tower, which tapers up to a height of 72.5 meters with 399 steps leading to the top and is covered with intricate carvings and verses from the holy book Quran, located in a Mehrauli in South of Delhi which was built in 1193 by Qutb-ud-din Aibak who is considered as the first Muslim ruler of South Asia. Numerous inscriptions in Arabic and Nagari characters in different places of the Minar’s gives the historical information and the storied are surrounded by a projected balcony encircling it’s and supported by stone brackets, which are decorated with honey-comb design.
Constructing on octagonal shape, Red Fort is one of the magnificent structure with its glorious history fort built in 1639 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan on the banks of Yumana.
Having more than 3000 years history, Delhi is one of the most buzzing city, preferred destination on tourist's itinerary, endowed with extreme of attractions.The city had experienced of the rise and fall of several empires and rulers with grandeur, battles and bloodshed, from time to time.
Banaras is considered as an oldest inhabited city in the world situated in Uttar Pradesh, at a distance of 351 km from Kathmandu Nepal, 710 km from Delhi and 680 km from Calcutta on the western bank of Ganges River(On the meeting point of the two rivers Varuna and Assi)with temples, shrines and the famous ghats(cremation places). This city has been mentioned in almost all the ancient sacred texts of the Hindu and Buddhist. This holy city Varanasi is also called Banaras and Kashi even exist at the time of the Buddha. Sarnath 10 km from Banaras, a renowned Buddhist site, where the stream of the Buddha's teaching “first sermon” flowed in the Deer Park known as Maha-Dharmachakra Pravartan in Buddhism . In this ancient city you can see the whole life-cycle of Indians how they lived and what they do after dead. On the word of Mark Twain, the English writer about an ancient city Banaras is "Banaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend and looks twice as old as all of them put together".
