Jaipur Travel and Tourism

Forts
Amer Fort Jaipur, Jaigarh Fort Jaipur, Nahargarh Fort Jaipur

Palaces
City Palace Jaipur

Temples
Govind Devji Temple Jaipur, Moti Doongrari & Lakshmi Narayan Temple Jaipur, Jagat Shiromani Temple Jaipur , Sun Temple at Galta Ji,

Monuments
Jantar Mantar Jaipur, Hawa Mahal Jaipur, Mubarak Mahal , Diwan e Khas and Diwan e Am

Gardens
Ram Niwas Garden Central Museum (or Albert Hall Museum) Jaipur, Zoological Garden Jaipur, Sisodia Rani Palace and Garden Jaipur, Vidyadhar Garden Jaipur

Other Places to see
Jal Mahal Jaipur, Royal Cenotaphs Jaipur, Statue circle Jaipur, Galta Jaipur, Ramgarh Jaipur, B.M. Birla Auditorium and Convention Centre Jaipur

Do’s And Dont’s

All foreign nationals have to pay their hotel bills in foreign currency only, in cash, travelers’ checks or credit cards. (However, Indian rupees are accepted if supported by proof of certificate of encashment in India of foreign currency or travelers’ checks).

Concessional tickets like Indrail Pass, Youth fares, Discover India Fares and Air Fares are to be paid for in foreign exchange only.

Do not purchase air/ rail/ bus tickets through strangers or unauthorized travel agents/ tour operators.

Do not hire any type of transportation from unlicensed or unapproved operators.

While shopping, sightseeing or going to and from transportation terminals avoid touts and brokers. Be aware of unscrupulous shopkeepers, if you feel that you are being abused do not hesitate to consult the proper authorities.

Taxi and auto-rickshaws fares keep changing, therefore, they do not always conform to readings on meters. To avoid confusion, insist on seeing the latest fare chart available with taxi/ auto-rickshaw drivers and pay accordingly. Taxis and auto-rickshaws do not have meters in all cities, but where they do, insist on the meter being flagged in your presence. Incase the driver refuses to cooperate, seek the assistance of a policeman. Where there are no meters, ask assistance at your hotel and agree on the taxi fare in advance.

B.M. Birla Auditorium and Convention Centre

The Birla Science and Technology Centre, in the heart of Jaipur is a sprawling 9.8 acre complex which includes and interactive science museum, library, a computer centre, an information processing and dissemination cell, as many as eight research division, a processing planetarium and an auditorium. The main auditorium with a seating capacity of 1350 people, is one of the largest auditoriums in India, built to international conference standards.

25 kms. north-east of Jaipur, an ancient site now famous for its huge artificial lake created by constructing a high bund amidst tree-covered hills, where the citizens throng in large numbers for a picnic in the rainy season. The old royal hunting lodge has now been converted into a gateway hotel. But the temple of Jamwa Mata and the ruins of the old fort still remind one of its hoary antiquity when the Kachhawah’s first settled here before moving on to Amer.

Workshops at Jaipur Festival

Jaipur Heritage Workshops – 16 –20 January 2006

As part of the unique annual January festival of creative arts and crafts, Jaipur Virasat Foundation is offering six exceptional Jaipur Heritage Workshops – Miniature Painting Techniques,Mud Resist Prints on Cloth, Kitsch Krafts, Stitches of the Desert, Fabulous Fashion and Narrative Scroll Painting; each based on traditional craft techniques of this magical city. Designed to inspire your creativity you will also discover some of the fascinating secrets of the region’s multi-faceted artistic heritage.

Workshops will be led by local experts collaborating with wellknown British designers at locations selected for the subject such as private havelis, palaces, specialist museums & craft studios. Held over five mornings, from 10am to 1pm, you will be free to enjoy the festival activities for the rest of the day.

On Day Six after the workshops have ended, you can attend the Grand Gala Evening, with artists and international guests from the festival. For each of the five days and day six, there will be afternoon options for which you can sign up. They include:

Escorted visits to: specialist museums a local painting workshop textile workshops of repute craft based design workshops of repute textile workshops in the bazaars and local decorative workshops, producing for the export trade

Private viewings of: traditional wardrobe in the home of a member of the aristocracy. a private home of distinct decorative style private collections in the owners’ home

Festival Gala Evening – 21 January 2006, Afternoon excursions available on request

Cost -£180 per participant, 15 places only per workshop, (Additional fees for afternoon trips and Gala Evening)

Miniature Painting Techniques at Jaipur Festival

With partner Thakor Dushyant Singh of Naila Bagh, Olivia Dalrymple, & expert miniature painter, Ajay Sharma

Day One: An expedition for sketching and photography with Olivia and Thakor Dushyant Singh in the city bazaars while you learn about the various local papers used for miniature painting, and an opportunity to buy your own paper, pigments and materials to take home with you, from the specialist sources.

Days Two, Three, Four & Five: In a studio space in the atmospheric gardens of Naila Bagh, one of the least changed aristocratic homes of historic Jaipur, and under the guiding eye of Olivia and Thakor Dushyant Singh, learn from expert miniature artist Ajay Sharma.

During the next four days you will be guided in the centuries old methods of preparing both your paper and pigments, the brush techniques, and how to use metal foil in order to produce an exquisite individual work of art.

There will be an opportunity to study some superb examples from the Jaipur Royal Collection in the City Palace Art gallery.

Mud Resist Prints and Indigi Days at Jaipur Festival

With partner Anokhi Museum of Hand Prints, Natalie Gibson print artist & Vikram Joshi

Day One: Field Research with Natalie for sketches and photos of inspirational subjects in Jaipur bazaars & City Palace complex.

Day Two: In one of the studios at Anokhi Farm, Jagatpura, under the guiding eye of Natalie and Vikram, plan your personal design and its end use – a garment shawl, a bag, hat, throw, accessory, a kite or wall hanging. Select your materials, then customise and create the stencil or select the wood stamps to apply the resist.

Days Three & Four: At Jahota, a traditional village centre of block prints and indigo work some 30 kilometres from Jaipur, complete the stencils, apply, handpaint or stamp your base cloth with mud resist paste, dry, dip dye in indigo vat. Experience rural Rajasthan and how this technique has been practised for centuries.

Day Five: Back at the Anokhi Studios, complete your personalised item with the help of a small team of tailors, hand workers, embroiderers and the Resource Pool selection of finishing and embellishing options such as borders, sequins, sparkles.

Kitsch Krafts at Jaipur Festival

With partner IICD, Andrew Logan sculptor & Bulbul Sharma

Day One: Field Research with Andrew and Bulbul for references & photos of inspirational decorative treatments in Jaipur bazaars & City Palace complex

Day Two: In a private palace, under the guiding eye of Andrew and Bulbul, select and plan your choice item from the Workshop Pool of Resources, a selection of base objects and materials enabling you to personalize a picture frame, box, or a piece of outrageous “jewellery”.

Day Three: Shopping in the heart of the fascinating old city markets to buy a range of mirror pieces, semi precious stones, coloured threads, sequins, glass beads, glitter & bright pigments and such like, of your choice, to use in decorating your selected objects*.

Day Four & Five: Back at Naila Bagh, get your hands into the work as you execute, decorate, paint or varnish your personalised item with the help of a small team of craftspeople.

* Shopping in the bazaars is not included in the workshops costs and is additional to the fee.

Stitches of The Desert at Jaipur Festival

With partner Anokhi Museum of Hand Prints, Lucy Goffin textile artist & Vartika

Day One: Field Research at Anokhi workshop and studios where you can delve into the rich textile archive and other references in the company library

Day Two: Visit City Palace textile rooms with Lucy and Vartika who will explain the traditional fabric & embroidery techniques on show and on to a well-known textile emporium for a viewing of the fine antique embroidered pieces

Day Three, Four & Five: In the Anokhi Museum of Handprinting situated in historic Amber, select your own materials from the Workshop Pool of Resources, and start your three-day learning experience.

Under the guiding eye of Lucy and Vartika, you will have a unique opportunity to learn a range of differing stitches, using a variety of threads and materials – cotton and silk, mirrors, sequins and metallic ribbons – to produce your own samplers. You will gain hands-on experience of the extensive range of decorative stitchery typical of the region with the help of local embroidery ladies demonstrating their skills.

Fabulous Fashion at Jaipur Festival

With partner NIFD Jaipur, David Kappo fashion designer & Bina Ramani Find inspiration from Jaipur’s living culture to create an extravagant and unique outfit of your own design!

Day One: Observation and Field Research with David and Bina for ideas, sketches & photos in the streets, museums and palaces of the city to absorb colours, textures, shapes and styles of local fashion

Day Two: Visit local suppliers of traditional clothing, fabrics and accessories – sari merchants, glitter & wedding specialists, embroidery & tie dye shops, jewellery & bangle markets to select your fabrics and embellishments*

Day Three & Four & Five: In a secluded space in a private palace, under the inspirational guidance of David and Bina, plan, design and draw up your own fantasy costume with the gorgeous fabrics, decorations and accessories you have chosen. Learn about tying turbans and draping saris. Make up your outfit with the help of your own personal tailor, using, if you want, the patterns, shapes, embellishments, trims and finishings from the Workshops Resource Pool.

Cost of shopping is extra and not included in the workshop fee.

Galta Ji

In the vicinity of the city, 10 kms. from Jaipur, Galta is situated amidst the range of hills east of the city. On the top of the hill, overlooking the Galta valley is a Sun temple. To the east of the temple is a reservoir or a tank which is perrennially fed by a never-failing spring of pure water falling from Gaumuch or an outlet shaped like the mouth of a cow.

On the way to Galta, by the Ghat-ki-Guni, there is a range of hills which is crowned with the fort of Amagarh. At the end of the cause way, stands a palace of the former Jaipur rulers with a beautiful garden, kiosks and temples. This erstwhile state garden called Roop Niwas with a commodious and beautiful palace, is worth visiting.

Crafts Design And Shopping at Jaipur Festival

National Crafts Bazaar at Jaipur Festival
Jan14 to 28, 11 to 21.00hrs , Jaipur Udyog Maidan Statue Circle

Recognizing that the makers of handicrafts and village micro industries in India generate livelihood opportunities second only to agriculture, the Development Commissioner Handicrafts encourages crafts bazaars across the country to create marketing opportunities for craftspeople. The Jaipur National Craft Bazaar, brought to the city annually to coincide with the international January festival, is one of three only in India on this scale. It brings to the city a range of handicrafts and assorted items from all over the country, offers a place to experience the diversity of India, to uncover unusual treasures you may never have seen before, shop for bargains for friends and family, and to experience the great range of India’s crafts.
Organised by RUDA, Brought to Jaipur by JVF partner the Development Commissioner Handicrafts, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India.

Rang Gulabi - An Exhibition of Excellence at Jaipur Festival
Sat 21 & Sun 22, 10.00 to 20.00 hrs, Hotel Clark’s Amer

A unique two-day shopping opportunity! Organised by Shubham Seva Akshar in Jaipur, Akshay Pratishthan Rehabilitation Centre in Delhi to raise funds for the disabled. Part of the proceeds of this sale will go to Disha & Shubham Seva Akshar in Jaipur, Akshay Pratishthan Rehabilitation Centre in Delhi. The sale offers a wide range of crafted items and some of the best brands in the field in the ambience of a buzzing market place. Jewellery, clothes, textiles, household goods and traditional foods will all be on offer, along with fun activities like turban-tying competitions, mehendi (henna) painting on hands and feet, rangoli painting and such like.
Supported by Akshay Pratishthan (Delhi) and Shubham (Jaipur)

Design & Craft at Jaipur Festival
Daily throughout the festival, 11.00 to 18.00hrs, AKFD Shop

A collection of cutting-edge design artifacts, furniture and lifestyle products. Made with unusual yet traditional materials and processes, the designer’s work appeals to discerning, quality conscious, contemporary sensibilities. Ayush Kasliwal, creative director of AKFD and graduate of NID, has worked with leading designers across the globe, giving them access to the rich world of Rajasthani crafts. Today he supplies many of the world’s leading retailers.
Supported by AKFD Shop

Textiles and Antiques at Jaipur Festival
My Daughter’s Dowry – an exhibition
Throughout the festival, 11.00 to 17.00hrs, Gallery Barsana & Museum of Embroideries
Ajrakh, Kantha and Dhabla Shawls – an exhibition plus sale

Gallery Barsana will have its first exhibition from January 15 to 25th, 2006 by national award winning craftspersons. There will be Ajrakh by the family of late Khatri Mohamad bhai of Damadka in Kutch, Kantha by Smt. Takdira Begum of Bengal and Dhoblas by Vankar Valji Visram of Bijoda, a village in Kutch. Also on display will be My Daughter’s Dowry, an exhibition of items that a daughter carries with her at the time of her marriage in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
Supported by Gallery Barsana

Workshop at Jaipur Festival
Design and Craft – A Workshop of arts, crafts, design & learning

To bring cutting edge design and marketing inputs to the world of crafts, and to train future designers for the realities of present day global markets, Tom Dixon, a leading contemporary designer of UK, collaborates with Jaipur designers to guide students from the Royal College London and the Indian Institute of Craft and Design to work with local craftspeople in metal and stone.
Supported by the British Council, Anokhi Museum & Good Earth

Visual Arts at Jaipur Festival

Ceramic installations by Tarshito (Italy) at Jaipur Festival
The Vase and the Fish
Throughout the festival, 11.00 to 18.00hrs, Dwarka Dheesh Temple

Italian artist Tarshito is working with Jaipur’s famous blue pottery artisans to create installations of ceramic art, in one of the Walled City’s historic temples. Architect, designer and artist Tarshito is a native of Southern Italy, He has spent large amounts of time in India where he first came in 1979 in search of inspiration. He has exhibited at the Delhi Crafts Museum and has worked extensively with Indian craftsmen to produce handicrafts, furniture, jewellery and exhibition pieces for Italian and Indian markets.
Supported by Nature Morte

Paintings, sculpture and photographs (Italy) at Jaipur Festival
An Italian Season
Throughout the festival, 11.00 to 18.00hrs, Chaturdic Gallery, JKK

Using a range of materials, contemporary artists from various regions of Italy have made paintings, sculpture and photographs… There will be a special focus on painting. Participating artists include Maria Elisabetta Catamo, Gianna Scoino, Alberto Ghinzani, Lino Mannocci, Elisabetta di Pisa, Barbara Pietrasanta, and Tarshito. Supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura and Nature Morte

Paintings by Bajrang Lal Suthar at Jaipur Festival
Bajrang - Life through Paint and Poetry
Throughout the festival, 11.00 to 18.00hrs, Diggi Palace

Bajrang Lal Suthar was permanently disabled in an accident ten years ago. Here he tells the story of his struggle to overcome his difficulties. Bajrang has found an outlet for his emotions through writing poetry, and translating them onto canvas. This is his debut exhibition, featuring work from a span of about seven years. With no other source of income, this former carpenter from the small village of Momasar in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan, is now being encouraged by the Jaipur Virasat Foundation to look at art as a means of livelihood.

Paintings by various Jaipur Artists at Jaipur Festival
Jaipur Revisited
Throughout the festival, 11.00 to 18.00hrs, JKK Parijat 1 and 2

Specially curated for the Festival by National art critic and published scholar Dr Alka Pande, this exhibition looks at the emerging visual language of contemporary visual artists of Jaipur. It is a celebration of today’s Jaipur, a thriving ‘creative bowl’, set against the backdrop of the city’s past - the home of tradition and feudal kingship.

Paintings by Surendra Pal Joshi at Jaipur Festival
Resonance on Art
Throughout the festival, 18.00 to 20.00hrs, ta Blu, Hotel Clark’s Amer

A series of paintings that create the effect of textiles with the use of acrylic colours. Surendra Pal Joshi’s works exemplify figurative and non-figurative facets of life, and uses textures of fabrics and shades of colour. The focal emotion in the paintings is the satisfaction of being close to one’s roots. Joshi has done 20 solo and 80 group exhibitions, and is chiefly known for his “time textile” series.
Supported by ta Blu

Paintings by various National Artists at Jaipur Festival
The Juneja Collection
Throughout the festival, 10.00 to 20.00hrs, Juneja Art Gallery

An exhibition of works by artists from across India - Jatin Das, Surjit Akre and Prof. Niren Sen Gupta from Delhi, Manoj Mitra, Ashoke Mullick and Subrata Gangopadhyay from Kolkata, Anand Panchal from Mumbai, and Deepika Hazra, Sangeeta Juneja and Kiran Murdia from Rajasthan. There will also be a daily art demonstration.
Supported by the Juneja Gallery

Paintings and Sculpture by various National Artists at Jaipur Festival
The Samanvai Collection
Throughout the Festival, 10.00 to 20.00hrs, Samanvai Art Gallery

Paintings and sculptures by Nikhil Biswas, K.H. Ara, Rabin Mondal, Ganesh Haroi, Paritosh Sen, Shyamal Dutta Ray, Sanat Kar, Prokash Karmokar, Jogen Choudhary, Ramanand Bandhopadhyaya, Bijon Choudhary, Pradeep Mitra, Laxman Goud and other internationally acclaimed contemporary Indian artists.
Supported by the Samanvai Gallery

Photographs by Elizabeth Simpson (UK) at Jaipur Festival
Hands, Mind and Eye
Throughout the festival, 11.00 to 18.00hrs, Hotel Rajputana Sheraton

The exhibition explores the relationship between people, their culture and their environment through the eyes of Elizabeth Simpson, who toured Jaipur, Kota, Kishangarh, Jodhpur and Kumbalgarh in 2004 and 2005. The families of the people photographed have lived for many years in the same area, and practise the same work as their forbearers. The land, the material, the skills are imbibed in their bodies and many of the prints are collages: two shots superimposed on one another, showing these inherent relationships.

Video Art curated by Pooja Sood at Jaipur Festival
Fri 20, Sat 21 and Sun 22

Apeejay Media Gallery, a premier forum for new media art in India, presents a selection of video art works on three evenings 20th - 22nd January 2006

The Gallery provides a forum for an exciting dialogue between film making, video, performance, installation art, digitally manipulated photography, virtual reality, acoustics, choreography and dance amongst the many other possibilities that the confluence of art and technology provide.
Supported by Apeejay Media Gallery

Workshop at Jaipur Festival
Comics as a contemporary graphic narrative form - Workshop by Etienne Schreder from Belgium
Mon 16 to Fri 20, Rajasthan School of Art

A five-day workshop conducted by respected Belgian comic strip artist Etienne Schreder, covering the global history of comic strips from the beginnings to present day techniques. The workshop offers a unique opportunity for artists to learn about the philosophies and techniques of comic strip art so they can develop their own creations. Participants will be encouraged to create their own works by the final day. Etienne Schreder is a respected Belgian comic strip artist and workshop trainer. He began his full time career in comics with the well-known publishers Casterman. Since 2003, he has been with the largest French comic strip publisher, Glénat. He has produced several albums, specially commissioned work and collaborated with other artists in the course of his career.
Supported by India’s Heritage, The Viveka Foundation and Rajasthan School of Art

Public Art Installation at Jaipur Festival
Universal Being - In the Path of the Sun and the Moon
Sat 21, 14.45 hrs, Central Park

This work represents an international collaboration of many partners. Installed at two sites, in the north of Jaipur on the island facing the Jal Mahal and towards the south in the Central Park, the public work of art is the masterpiece of the French artist Christian Lapie working with Tab India, the crafts people of Rajasthan and Jaipur designer Samiir Wheaton, in Bijolia, Bheslana and Karoli stone. The locations establish the work in harmony with its historical context and reflect Jaipur’s north-south axis. The sculptures are monumental figures without arms or faces. As universal human beings they question us and watch over us as though they were our guardians, placid and immutable. They include us in the landscape, its memory and its history. As the heavenly constellations inform all elements of Indian culture, so the fifteen pieces of which this two-site installation is made are inspired by the heavens. At Jal Mahal the sun and moon look together in the same direction representing day and night. The group of thirteen in the Central Park represent the Constellation of Capricorn and the winter solstice. The sculptures invite us to reflect upon the passage of time. The project will be inaugurated on January 21 and promotes Jaipur globally as an international centre of contemporary artistry and craft.
Principal Sponsor TabIndia

Jaipur Heritage International Festival, a project of Jaipur Virasat Foundation (JVF), is an effort to revitalize dying arts & crafts, create employment opportunities, conserve, restore & find new uses for historic sites promote sustainability, diversity & celebration.

Statue circle

The full length white marble statue of Sawai Jai Singh installed in the centre of thenewly developed ‘C’ Scheme area, was erected as a homage to the founder of Jaipur.

Royal Cenotaphs

At the far end on the Delhi road is the cremation ground of the rulers of Amer. Some of these cenotaphs still preserve traces of paintings which once embellished their inner and outer walls.