Once like a Maharaja live - dream of many Indian travelers. Who in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan is on the way, can fulfill that desire. Numerous palaces were rebuilt there in recent decades to hotels. A very authentic experience of Bhadrawati Palace offers near Jaipur. The 11th of the -Century magnificent enchanted with morbid charm. The area is ideal for a trip back in time for Rajasthan Holidays.
Back to the past to Bhandarej
Between the "pink" city Jaipur and the Bhadrawati Palace in the 2000-strong local Bhandarej located 60 kilometers. But the journey by bus takes about two hours. The highway is crowded with colorfully decorated trucks, rickshaws, camel carts and sacred cows. Only a small dirt road eventually leads from the "Highway" from. Stumbling, we pass fields where gazelles and camels graze, nibble on the acacia trees. When the bus stops on a street lined with houses, a palace is in sight. Women in colorful saris and men in shirts and trousers look over stretched. Children flock to waving. The European guests are also an attraction for the locals as the locals for tourists.
Morbid charm and screaming monkeys
As the palace is situated on a hill, then the last stretch to be covered on foot. It goes through winding streets, past houses with indigo blue crumbling facades. Sacred cows are rooted to the front. While some of the villagers to return just before sunset from the field work, sit busily working shoemakers, blacksmiths and tailors in dimly lit arcades. Other men can maintain itself in barber shops. And while it sniffs at one corner of a Hindu temple of incense, you breathe in the next one, the exhaust of a generator. Then appears hidden behind high walls, the palace complex. The breath of the hoped-tale world blows behind the flower-adorned gate. Is a look at the fountain and the pavilion in the middle of the court. Palm trees and lilac bushes attention from the venerable patina from the palace walls. There is silence. Only monkeys that climb the walls, yelling excitedly.
Lowered into the harem rooms
A servant with a turban folds his hands in "Namaste" and welcomes guests with a chain of yellow flowers. The old man led to the former women's quarters. Today, the former harem Palace was simply furnished rooms. The Maharaja suites with marble work against magnificent. They offer fantastic views and are equipped with artistically carved furniture. Stained glass windows and miniature paintings of decorated elephants, lend the rooms a museum character.
The noble prince as a lawyer and hotelier
"Bhadrawati is over Jaipur," says Raghu Singh and smiles. The law graduate with pride with the royal title "Raj". For 14 years he runs the centuries-old Palace Heritage hotel with 70 rooms. His guests are mostly European or American, the book also horseback riding, biking, jeep safaris and camping with him. Some of the land on which the 52-year-old is traveling with the tourists belong, still the noble family from Bhandarej. She had once possessed the right to rule over 51 villages and an army with camels, horses and elephants. Now, power is gone by then, but the Raj still has the aura of a ruler. He has to throw a glance at its Butler, already rushes in this, accepts the command and executes it as quickly as possible.
Coated privileges for the Indian aristocracy
How these princely family in many Indian nobles had in 1971 come up with something to get their wealth. The government under Indira Gandhi had then the privilege for the Indian aristocracy abolished. In order to preserve the magnificent buildings, worked to some nobles built their palaces in hotels, others were forfeited them. That maintain the original Rajasthani Bhandarej life in spite of the feeding tourism remains Raghu Raj Singh is particularly close to heart - because it makes the special charm of Bhadrawati Palace.
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Back to the past to Bhandarej
Between the "pink" city Jaipur and the Bhadrawati Palace in the 2000-strong local Bhandarej located 60 kilometers. But the journey by bus takes about two hours. The highway is crowded with colorfully decorated trucks, rickshaws, camel carts and sacred cows. Only a small dirt road eventually leads from the "Highway" from. Stumbling, we pass fields where gazelles and camels graze, nibble on the acacia trees. When the bus stops on a street lined with houses, a palace is in sight. Women in colorful saris and men in shirts and trousers look over stretched. Children flock to waving. The European guests are also an attraction for the locals as the locals for tourists.
Morbid charm and screaming monkeys
As the palace is situated on a hill, then the last stretch to be covered on foot. It goes through winding streets, past houses with indigo blue crumbling facades. Sacred cows are rooted to the front. While some of the villagers to return just before sunset from the field work, sit busily working shoemakers, blacksmiths and tailors in dimly lit arcades. Other men can maintain itself in barber shops. And while it sniffs at one corner of a Hindu temple of incense, you breathe in the next one, the exhaust of a generator. Then appears hidden behind high walls, the palace complex. The breath of the hoped-tale world blows behind the flower-adorned gate. Is a look at the fountain and the pavilion in the middle of the court. Palm trees and lilac bushes attention from the venerable patina from the palace walls. There is silence. Only monkeys that climb the walls, yelling excitedly.
Lowered into the harem rooms
A servant with a turban folds his hands in "Namaste" and welcomes guests with a chain of yellow flowers. The old man led to the former women's quarters. Today, the former harem Palace was simply furnished rooms. The Maharaja suites with marble work against magnificent. They offer fantastic views and are equipped with artistically carved furniture. Stained glass windows and miniature paintings of decorated elephants, lend the rooms a museum character.
The noble prince as a lawyer and hotelier
"Bhadrawati is over Jaipur," says Raghu Singh and smiles. The law graduate with pride with the royal title "Raj". For 14 years he runs the centuries-old Palace Heritage hotel with 70 rooms. His guests are mostly European or American, the book also horseback riding, biking, jeep safaris and camping with him. Some of the land on which the 52-year-old is traveling with the tourists belong, still the noble family from Bhandarej. She had once possessed the right to rule over 51 villages and an army with camels, horses and elephants. Now, power is gone by then, but the Raj still has the aura of a ruler. He has to throw a glance at its Butler, already rushes in this, accepts the command and executes it as quickly as possible.
Coated privileges for the Indian aristocracy
How these princely family in many Indian nobles had in 1971 come up with something to get their wealth. The government under Indira Gandhi had then the privilege for the Indian aristocracy abolished. In order to preserve the magnificent buildings, worked to some nobles built their palaces in hotels, others were forfeited them. That maintain the original Rajasthani Bhandarej life in spite of the feeding tourism remains Raghu Raj Singh is particularly close to heart - because it makes the special charm of Bhadrawati Palace.
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