We meet you at Jaipur airport or railway station and drive to your accommodation, a beautifully restored family-owned palace. Jaipur is well known for its historical monuments most of which were established by Sawai Jai Singh II who founded the city. However, it is all about how you see the city that makes the difference.

Join us for a guided storytelling tour of the Amber Palace and Hawa Mahal. We then visit the city palace followed by a visit to the houses of marble stonemasons and brass artifact makers and get involved in a hands-on activity with them.

Visit the old Amer town and spend time with a Rajput family in their traditional house over a meal and visit traditional bangle makers with a demonstration of the art by the artisans.

Optional add-on: Guided food tour of Jaipur, village visits, block-printing activity.

Note: We can also set up accommodations, pickup, and transfers from New Delhi on request.

Travel medium: Private car/ walking | Difficulty: Easy

After breakfast, we drive to Bundi. Bundi is a small town that is still untouched by mass tourism and retains its old-world charm. Over the next two days, we visit the Bundi palace and its ‘Chitrashala‘ (school of miniature art.

Spend a day exploring the stunning Bundi countryside and visit a few villages of the Bhil tribe. We hike to numerous cave formations, perennial rivers, waterfalls, and medieval temples. We also cross numerous small towns on the way and stop to visit weekly farmer markets, and have tea and local delicacies (kachori, jalebi) at places visited only by the locals, as we share stories about the fabric of the social structure.

Travel medium: Private car/ walking | Difficulty: Easy

Spend the next few days in Udaipur, the city of lakes in Rajasthan. Arrive by evening and spend the first day exploring the charming lanes of Udaipur the Lake Pichola on your own.

The next day, we go for guided tours of the city palace followed by the charming markets of the old town and a visit to the tie-and-dye artisans and block printers. See how the cloth is transformed by printing beautiful designs using wooden blocks and by dyeing them in Indigo color.

Optional add-on: Visit a royal family and have a cooking experience followed by a lunch meal.

Travel medium: Private car | Difficulty: Easy

We drive from Bundi to Ghanerao via a brief stop at the Ranakpur Jain temple. Visit the Kumbhalgarh fort and spend time with the nomadic camel herders, the Raika community. Learn about their nomadic life and local folk tales, and possibly taste tea made from camel milk.

Optional add-on: Leopard safari.

Travel medium: Private car | Difficulty: Easy

Spend the next few days in Jodhpur and adjoining villages. On the first day, we arrive in the afternoon and feast on a homemade delicious meal. We then go for a wildlife experience where you can expect to see blackbuck, peacocks, and blue bull. Visit the houses of potters, shepherds, and carpet weavers as we do storytelling on their customs and beliefs. Participate in a dance and music session with the local artists in the evening.

Guided tour of Jodhpur city where we visit Mehrangarh fort and Jaswant Thada followed by a tour of the old city where we taste local delicacies and visit bangle makers, leather sandal makers, and sweet shops, and end the tour by visiting a local family house.

Day-tour of the desert in Osian where we visit the Jain temples and go for a camel safari in the desert where we visit beautiful villages for a tea and a meal.

Optional add-on: Overnight stay in the desert.

Travel medium: Private car | Difficulty: Easy

We are now coming towards the end of our tour with a visit to Jaisalmer often called the brown city because of yellow stone which is a part of every house’s architecture. Spend the next few days with us on walking tours of the old town and taste local delicacies such as ‘poha‘ and ‘dhokla‘ and storytelling on the local community. Visit the ‘Patwa Haveli‘, a group of royal houses of the Oswal Jain community who were rich traders from the 19th century trading in spices, gold, silver, and opium.

Visit the Kuldhara ruins, the village that we once inhabited by the Paliwal community but was abandoned overnight. There are various stories behind the sudden abandonment. We also visit the cenotaphs of the rulers of Jaisalmer before returning to the city for an evening tour of the fort and gala dinner.

Travel medium: Private car | Difficulty: Easy

We say goodbye to Rajasthan and continue our onward journey via Jaisalmer airport or train station.