Rajasthan Footprint Handbook: Includes Delhi & Agra - Hardcover

Dare, Annie; McCulloch, Victoria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1907263152 ISBN 13: 9781907263156

Publisher: Footprint Travel Guides, 2010

Synopsis

Explore Rajasthan without the tourists with Footprint's 4th edition Rajasthan Handbook.

Rajasthan is one of India's most fascinating states, a region steeped in tradition with its colourful tribal cultures, plush palaces and forbidding forts. Explore the Golden Triangle: Agra, Jaipur and Delhi, where you can tantalize your taste buds with delicious thalis and see for yourselves the greatest monument to love, the Taj Mahal. Footprint's 4th edition Rajasthan Handbook will show you exactly how to experience this without the crowds, with fantastic listings on where to eat, sleep and play, plus a specialist activity guide including desert safaris and jungle trekking making this guide perfect if you've got a sense of adventure!

The guide opens with a colour section providing inspirational advice to help you plan your trip and gives you a flavour of the best things to see and do. It includes suggested itineraries for a 1,2 or 4 week trip to ensure you see the best of what this exciting country has to offer in the time you have available. The guide then provides extensive, thoroughly researched information which will help you plan your trip as well as advising you on the ground. The Essentials section provides great advice on how to get there and how to get around as well as information on sleeping, eating, drinking and shopping giving you an idea of what you can expect to pay. The heart of the guide is broken in to the key regions (Delhi & Agra, Jaipur & around, Eastern Rajasthan, Southern Rajasthan, Western Rajasthan, Northern Rajasthan) with each regional section providing an overview map, local information on how to get around with transport and street maps where relevant, a short history of the region, thorough advice on what to see and do and a directory of key local information on banks, embassies, internet cafes and medical services. A selection of useful Hindi words and phrases are also included as well as a handy menu reader helping you enjoy the best of what the local cuisine has to offer.

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One of India's most fascinating states, a region steeped in tradition with its colourful tribal cultures, plush palaces and forbidding forts, Rajasthan is home to all this and more. Explore the Golden Triangle: Agra, Jaipur and Delhi, where travellers can expect to tantalize their taste buds with delicious thalis and see for themselves the greatest monument to love, the Taj Mahal. Footprint's 4th edition Rajasthan Handbook will show intrepid travellers exactly how to experience this without the crowds, with fantastic listings on where to eat, sleep and play, plus a specialist activity guide including desert safaris and jungle trekking making this guide perfect for anyone with a sense of adventure. Excellent coverage of the main cities Hints and tips on how to get the most from this fascinating region and how to avoid the tourists In-depth listings on where to eat and sleep Specialist activity guide including desert safaris, trekking and motor-biking

About the Author

Annie Dare is a writer and journalist who divides her time between London and India. She works as a sub-editor on British national newspapers, and commissions have ranged from copy writing for London advertising agencies to social documentary projects for international non-government organizations. She read English Literature at Sussex University's School of African and Asian Studies, and the History of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Victoria McCulloch first ventured to India in 1997, but has been living in 'the motherland' for the last six years and can now only drink her tea with masala in it. Armed with a laptop and a yoga mat, she plies her trade as a freelance journalist and Kundalini Yoga teacher. Victoria has also been influenced by the music and chanting in India and is recording her second mantra album. Hailing from the UK, Victoria studied postgrad Journalism at City University London before absconding to India.

About this edition

• Publisher: Footprint Travel Guides
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1907263152
• ISBN 13: 9781907263156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 352