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Rajasthan holidays

July 2019

  • A jewellery street vendor in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

    The Guardian picture essay
    The jewellers of Jaipur's Johari Bazaar – a photo essay

    Unesco has named the capital of Rajasthan, India, a world heritage site, partly for its jewellery and artisanal traditions, which continue to thrive on one of its main commercial streets

November 2018

  • Camels perform in a decoration competition at the Pushkar camel fair in Pushkar, Rajasthan, India, on 17 November 2018.

    Pushkar camel fair changing from market to heritage attraction

    In Rajasthan, India, officials hope tourism will help preserve the dying art of camel decoration as livestock trading at the famous fair declines

December 2017

  • The Queen’s Chamber in Udaipur’s City Palace

    Instagram snapshots
    Coffee houses, Kali and palaces in India – in pictures

    In our weekly look at travel through three Instagram shots, Chris Schalkx captures three different sides of India – its culture, history and religion

May 2017

  • ‘Bundi, early morning milk arrival comes in brass pots, strapped on to motorbikes ridden by mustachioed, turbaned men

    Why I love …
    ‘It was like being Alice-in-India’: artist Natasha Kumar on Bundi, Rajasthan

    The light, dust, colours and street life mean this town is as artistically inspiring as St Ives is to other painters

January 2017

  • Daytime in bright sunshine, participants at the Pushkar Fair on the banks of Pushkar Lake in Rajasthan take part in events. In the foreground a young performer, face covered in multi-coloured paint holds a ceremonial sword, while in the background performers on horses mill around waiting to take part.

    World view
    World view: a riot of colour at the Pushkar camel fair, India

    The autumn camel and livestock fair also brings celebration and festivities galore to the sacred Rajasthani town

February 2016

  • large painted statue.

    The art of craft shopping in India

    Traditional textile-making art is still to be found in India – you just need to go on a treasure hunt, says James Seaton, creative director of Toast

July 2015

  • Painted Elephants

    The extraordinary painted elephants of India – in pictures

    The Elephant Festival takes over the city of Jaipur every year. The animals are draped with jewellery and given majestic multicolour makeovers (complete with pedicures)

June 2014

  • Herders lead their camels to the Pushkar fair, Rajasthan

    Rajasthan moves to save the camel as population dwindles

    Indian state expected to pass draft law giving camels same legal protections as cows after numbers almost halve in past decade

May 2014

  • Kolkata

    Nightscapes by Gavin Evans: Indian cities after dark – in pictures

    Indian cities bustling with millions of people and vehicles are a familiar sight, but how do they look when darkness falls? Gavin Evans reveals the hours of eerie stillness in India's urban life

November 2012

  • A Beach Symphony, Kerala

    Guardian Travel Network
    India: five gorgeous getaways

    From a remote desert camp in Rajasthan to cottages right on the sand in Kerala, these five exclusive Indian pads are the perfect antidote to winter

November 2011

  • Cochrane Place, Darjeeling

    Readers' travel tips
    Readers' tips: India's best hotels

    India has plenty of great hotels to suit all budgets, according to Been there readers, from a Keralan tea planters' villa to a Raj-era mini palace in Mysore

October 2011

  • A Beach Symphony exterior

    10 of the best hotels in India

    The Guardian's south Asia correspondent, Jason Burke, has travelled all over India. Here he chooses his favourite hotels, from an old Rajasthani fort to a cool Delhi pad straight out of Wallpaper*

February 2011

  • Giraffes fighting in Tanzania

    Where's hot: sunny half-term getaways

  • Landscape around Jaipur

    Rajasthan puts its stately homes on sale

January 2011

  • Chapslee

    Family ways: how to do a homestay in India

    Staying as a paying guest in an Indian home is a great way to see the country on as little as £5 a day, and offers a unique peek into local life, says Katherine Russell Rich

November 2010

  • A young camel wears a necklace to show it has been sold at the Pushkar Camel Fair, India.

    Pushkar Camel Fair, Rajasthan

    The Pushkar Camel Fair in Rajasthan

September 2010

  • Riff 2010

    Rap for the rajas: India's best new music festival

    Rajasthan's International Folk Festival, launched just three years ago and held in a majestic fort in the Blue City of Jodhpur, is one of the most intimate and innovative in India

February 2010

  • Jaisalmer

    Perfect tents: camping in Rajasthan

    Red deserts, jaw-dropping palaces, India's most vibrant people… Rajasthan was the playground of the maharajahs. Now you can live like one, too

November 2009

  • Dancing with the sitars at India's newest music festival

  • Getting there: Rajasthan International Folk Festival

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