"City Palace, the largest Palace complex in the state of Rajasthan assumed to be built in 16th century, is a majestic white marble palace royally placed perfectly in a peak reflecting its beauty in the Pichola Lake. The city palace is guarded by huge fort walls and comprises of mammoth pillars, huge domes and arches and terraces. The palace is a specimen of Mewar style of architecture and evolution of architecture in Mewar based on European and Chinese architectural methods. Interior of palace is awesome with delicate and feminine softy feeling for visitors. It has beautiful paintings, grand silver doors, frescos and mirror work, fountains and beautiful gardens.

It's like being cocooned in authentic royal luxury at the Fateh Prakash Palace, the grand heritage palace of the HRH group. The warmth of royal hospitality greets you as you walk along the corridors lined with large paintings of the Mewar school that flourished in the seventeenth through nineteenth century.

Lake Palace, Udaipur Travels & ToursThe Lake Palace is located on the Jag Niwas Island and covers the whole of 1.5 hectare of the island in the middle of the Pichola Lake. Built by Maharana Jagat Singh in 1743 it was meant as a royal summer palace and now converted in to a five star palace hotel. It is a magical palace and its image in the middle of the lake is like a leaf straight out of a fairy tale book with an excellent taste of intricate craftsmanship and the ethnic themes using the textiles and handicrafts all over highlight the beauty that is simply beyond compare the lake around makes a pleasant murmur with its rippling waves and lapping that adds to the mesmerising moments.

Pichola Lake, the beautiful stretch of water surrounding the two marvelous structures the Jag Niwas and Jag Mandir, is the life line of Udaipur city. All the palaces in the city of palaces are constructed to have a magnificent reflection in this lake. This lake was created in the 15th century and widened later and a dam across was also created in that period. It was Maharana UDAI SINGH II strengthened the Dam and widened the lake, as he was building his capital on the shore of the beautiful Lake.

Fateh Sagar Lake, an appealing and quiet lake built by Maharana Jai Singh and later renovated by Maharana Fateh Singhji, is placed to the north of Lake Pichola with a canal linking the Pichola lake and Fateh Sagar Lake. The Lake is in the greenish backdrop of wooded hills surrounding the three sides and dammed on the other side.

Jaisamand Lake is also known as Dhebar.The lake, built by Maharana Jai Singh in 1685, is the second biggest artificial lake of the world covering an area of 36sq km. The lake remained the largest artificial lake in the world till the building of the Aswan dam in Egypt. The statistics of the lake is really amazing – 9 miles in breadth, 102 feet deep at its deepest end, a circumference of 30 miles with marble staircases leading into the water. The summer palaces of the Queens of Udaipur surround Jaisamand Lake on all sides.

On the way to Kumbhalgarh lies their royal lake with a magnificent dam created in the 17th century offers a spectacular views of the sunset adorned by beautiful Torans [arches] and Chhatris And number of attractive pavilions. Stunning sculpture and Sanskrit verses are vividly inscribed in store a small counterpart of Nathdwara.

City Palace Museum, Udaipur TravelThe main part of the palace is now preserved as a museum displaying a large and diverse array of artefacts. Down steps from the entrance is the armoury museum exhibiting a huge collection of protective gear, weapons including the lethal two-pronged sword. The City Palace museum is then entered through the Ganesh Deori meaning the door of Lord Ganesh.

Literally meaning a "Craftsmen's Village" is a living ethnographic museum depicting the enormous diversities in craft, art & culture between various Indian states, but the exquisite terracotta work mainly in dark red and dark brown sand material along with the wooden carvings are the forte of this ethnic village . Shilpgram comprises 26 huts set in 70 acres of natural surroundings at the foot of the Aravali Hills. A colourful craft festival during winter seasons to the whole set up induces viatanity and zeal.

Located about 2 kms east of Udaipur is an impressive cluster of cenotaphs of the Maharanas of Mewar. There are about nineteen cenotaphs of Maharanas cremated there. The most striking cenotaph is that Maharana Amar Singh, who reigned from 1597 to 1620. Nearby is also Ahar Museum, where on display is limited but very rare earthen pottery.

The collection within the grounds of the Garden Hotel comprises a variety of classic and interestingly rare transportation vehicles; some stately and vintage like Cadalec, Chevalate, Morais etc., while the others are sleek and fast .

The temple is situated 20km from Udaipur Eklingji is famous for its 108 temples complex. Built on a shore of a small lake surrounded by hills it is also known as Kailashpuri or the abode of Shiva.
It was built by Bappa Rawal on the side of 72 roomed jain temple which had a four faced idol of Adinathji , the first Jain saint. First built in 728AD , the main temple is made in white marble. Made of black marble , the four faced image of Mahadev (an icon of Lord Shiva) is worshipped as Eklingji.

Kumbhalgarh Fort, Udaipur ToursLocated 64 kms north of Udaipur in the wilderness, Kumbhalgarh is the second most important citadel after Chittorgarh in the Mewar region. Cradled in the Aravali Ranges the fort was built in the 15th century by Rana Kumbha. Because of its inaccessibility and hostile topography the fort had remained un-conquered. It also served the rulers of Mewar as a refuge in times of strife. The fort also served as refuge to the baby king Udai of Mewar. It is also of sentimental significance as it is the birthplace of Mewar's legendary King Maharana Partap. The fort is self-contained and has within its amalgam almost everything to withstand a long siege.

Jagat, better known as the Khajuraho of Rajasthan, is famous only for its Ambika Mata Temple built in 961AD. The temple is small in size but quite a detailed one and dates back to the Pratihara period. The temple has a towered altar, a mandapa (columned prayer hall) with projections on two sides and a small porch in front. The mandapa has decorative windows on the north and south edged by carved and ornamented panels.

The roof has additional alcoves that rise in the form of a pyramid in a number of eavelike rows. The porch is also protected by an angled eave. The beautiful engravings have also amply compensated the doorway that leads to the altar that houses a small Ambika image.
The ceiling panels of the prayer hall and the porch are carved with multi-lobed motifs and pendant medallions.
The mandapa also has a carved panel of the dancing Ganesha.

Nagda or Naga-hrada was the ancient capital of Mewar and was founded by Nagaditya in the 6th century. The rulers of Mewar had ruled from Nagda for seven generations till the time of Bappa Rawal (728AD). Nagada had not been left alone by the Muslim invaders and was plundered by Altamash between 1222 and 1229 AD.

The ancient capital of Nagda now only has the ruins of some Vishnu, Shiva and Jain temples to prove that it wasn’t behind when speaking of architecture. The most important temples that have survived the test of time are the Sas-Bahu pair and are said to be as old as eleventh century. The Jain temple toAdbhutji (the peculiar one) built during Rana Kumbha’s rule was so named for the strange idol within its shrine. The nine-foot high odd image in the temple is that of the Jain saint Shanti Nath.

Rikhabdev is famous only for its temple dedicated to Lord Rikhabdev, the first Jain Tirthankara. Rikhabdev is also claimed by the Vaishnavas as the eighth Avatar of Lord Vishnu. The temple belongs to the Svetambara sect of the Jains but at present is under the control of the State of Rajasthan. The temple is better known as Kesariyaji, derived from kesar or saffron that is put on the forehead of the idol of the Lord. The tribals, Bhils, who worship the idol, call it Kalaji due to the black image of the idol. The town of Rikhabdev is also known as Dhulev as the Bhil Dhula had once protected the idol and worshipped it at this place. The Bhils are very loyal to this Lord and always take an oath by uttering the name of Kalaji.