1Night 2Days

Open-air Museum in Shekhawati
1night 2days

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Itinerary

	City	Itinerary
1	Delhi Mandawa	Meet you at a specific place (home, hotel, etc.) in Delhi or Gurgaon. Then, go to Mandawa by a private car (about 5 hours). After arrival, tour and walk around in the city of Mandawa is called an “open-air museum” and buildings are painted with Frescos. <Option> If you want, we could arrange to move by a camel cart from the city of Mandawa to the hotel. Price for one person: INR 900/- (tax excluded) Meals: Dinner Overnight: Mandawa
2	Mandawa Fatehpur Delhi	In the morning, visit the city of Fatehpur is located about 1 hour from Mandawa (by car). View the Haveli painted colorful frescos remains, and the Haveli used to be owned by Nadine le Prince and is a museum at present. Then, see you off at a specific place in Delhi or in Gurgaon (about 5 hours). Meals: Breakfast

Price per person

Number of people	Price (INR)
4 (2 twin/double rooms)	Please contact us.
3 （1 triple room）
2 （1 twin/double room）
1 （1 room）
Single room supplement (2 and more people stay in)

** Air tickets can be arranged on request based on best available airfare.
** 5.0% government service tax would be applicable on the prices above.
** The prices above are valid from November 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016. For other dates, kindly contact us.
** Additional charges would be applicable if you plan your trip during Diwali, Christmas, year-end and New Year holidays. Kindly contact us for best quotes.

• ** If the exchange quotation rates (to US$) is drastically changed, the tour prices may be changed, accordingly.  Please confirm it when you apply.

 

Above mentioned prices are inclusive of:

• An English speaking guide  (accompanies from Delhi) | Private car and diver mentioned in the itinerary | Entrance fees to sites and safari charges mentioned in the itinerary | Accommodations mentioned in the itinerary | Meals (BF 1, DN 1) | Other expenses; parking fees, etc.

Above mentioned prices are exclusive of:

• Air fares for round trip between Kolkata / Jorhat | Personal expenses (drinks, phone calls, laundry, medicine etc.) | Tips to the guide and driver

• Hotels for this tour：

  • Mandawa - Udai Vilas Palace Mandawa
    

    The beautiful white hotel in the suburbs and equipped well. The guest room has enough space. A pool is equipped.
    **In case all rooms are booked when you reserve, we would introduce you the same class hotels.
    **If you want to stay at an accommodation other than the mentioned in above, or to extend your stay, please contact us for consulting.

  
  

Our way of tripping

Trip to Rajasthan from Delhi by 1night 2days The frescos magnetize the freaks of India.
The cities themselves are an “open-air museum”.
This tour is to enjoy Rajasthan for a short period. The “Haveli” remain in Mandawa and in Fatehpur. On the walls of Haveli, motifs of Hindu myths are decorated and the life styles and dreams at that time are depicted beautifully. Enjoy looking at the frescos are everywhere in the cities.
A tour guide accompanies and guides you by a private car from Delhi, makes you feel easy.  

A tour guide accompanies and guides you from Delhi on the all itineraries.

It is possible to handle various arrangements you want.
We could respond to various arrangements you want to make such as a tour plan combining with other courses. Please contact us for consulting.

The admired wonders..!!!

Frescos in the Shekhawati region

Shekhawati is a region in the Rajasthan state near Delhi. In 1549, Maharaja Sheka constructed the town. “Sheka” is the name of king and the word of ”wati” means garden. The town name Shekhawati is “garden of king, Garden of Sheka”. In Shekhawati, there were 25 villages. Among them, it is said Mandawa is the most beautiful. The must-see is the traditional houses called “Haveli” in this region which are decorated lavishly (luxuriously, gorgeously). Mandawa prospered as a transfer point on the Silk Road, and the “Marwari Merchants” expanded (their businesses) to the various places. In order to show their wealth, they decorated the walls of their Haveli with frescos. Also, these frescos gave colors in the life in Rajasthan surrounded by the dreary deserts.

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  Entrance of the “Chokhani Double Haveli”
  This Haveli is used by an employee at present. The exterior walls at the entrance are depicted with the elephants hang their noses down mean “Welcome”. Blue is the color of lapis lazuli in Afghanistan, symbolized wealth. The color of yellow on the elephant bodies is painted by the pigment made with the urine of elephant ate Mango and the minerals were mixed.
  
  

The motifs of frescos mainly come from the Indian myths. In addition, the motifs of railroad and plane in the modern Europe were depicted by listening to talks. Some of them are introduced here.

The Gulub Rai Radia Haveli is built in 1863 and the walls to the street are depicted interestingly. Approaching to the Haveli, see the motifs of elephants mean “welcome” at first. Then, below the elephants were depicted the life of people and railway. In 1852, a train was run in Mumbay at first in India. In 1922, a train was run in Rajasthan. This Haveli was built in 1863, and a drawing of “not seen train and railroad” was depicted. In that railway coach, “Kama Sutra” was depicted. The painter might imagine the railroad was a large world and there were anything in the railway coaches.

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  On the side wall of Gulub Rai Radia Haveli
  

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  Motifs of “Elephants are welcoming”

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  In that railway coach, “Kama Sutra” was depicted.
  

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  “Bullfight”

Other attractive frescos are seen here and there in the city. This fresco indicates the strong admiration to the modern culture in Europe.  Telephone, bicycle, plane…

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  In the middle of photo from left, a telephone device and a bicycle
  

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  Here are a plane and a bicycle

And the most vivid Haveli is the Nadine le prince Haveli in Fatehpur. In the beginning of 19th century, a Frenchman Nadine le prince repaired the Haveli of Devra Family in 1998 and it is used as a museum now.

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  In the middle of photo from left, a telephone device and a bicycle