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 At the foot of Nahargarh
nestled in a valley lie the Royal Gaitor which is
a beautiful, peaceful place. Its access is via the Zorawar or Samrat gates in the northern wall of
the city. Gaitor has the cenotaphs of the
maharajas of Jaipur, from Jai Singh II, the
founder of Jaipur, to that of the last maharaja,
Man Singh II. The more ancient cenotaphs,
including that of Jai Singh, ate in walled
compound to the rear.
Make a trip outside the city, to Gaitor and to the Water Palace
‘Jal Mahal’ and last but not least to the Amber
Fort. We find an auto riksja who is willing to
take us for a very reasonable price and - more
important - we succeed in keeping it low. So don’t
allow nephews of the driver (who doesn’t speak
much English, which is exceptionally but very
fortunate) to join us for detailed explanation,
and don’t agree with deals involving waiting and
driving back from Amber fort. Anyway, it is an
extremely beautiful outing and on this pages you
see a lot of pictures from it.
In the Royal Gaitor are several cenotaphs of the
Royal family. A cenotaph is - to put it simple - a
sepulchral monument without corpse. Very beautiful
buildings of white marble where Maharaja Jai Singh
II is resting (or not), the one that build all
astronomic buildings. It is very quiet over here
and so beautiful you don’t understand why it can
ever be so quiet. But we just enjoy it and let
ourselves be amazed by the carved figures and
again the curved roofs, peaceful and so cool white
that we forget to be hot. Up on the nearby
mountains there are a lot of stairways leading to
old forts and it feels like Greece, only so much
more of the buildings is standing and completely
intact
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