This slow travel full- day tour touches upon the most popular attractions of Jaipur. An immersive, insider view makes the experience all the richer as it’s really wonderful that now many of these places have facilities in place to support the explorations of seniors, people with different challenges, as well as wheelchair travellers, visually impaired or those with limited mobility.
An unforgettable part of the experience is soaking in the fantastic architectural heritage of the elegant palaces, pavilions and havelis (mansions), along with its centuries-old grid-pattern Old Quarter, inspired by traditional Hindu vastu tenets from Vedic times. Amongst the scattering of places you will see are also UNESCO World Heritage sites and bustling streets with their alluring shops and street food diversions.
This guided tour will take you to Jaipur’s unmissable hotspots such as the City Palace, partially a museum now, the Hawa Mahal or Palace of Winds, Jantar Mantar the 18th century open-air observatory commissioned by Maharaja Swai Jai Singh II, who built Jaipur, the Govindji Krishna Temple and Amer Fort, the palatial bastion of the Kachwaha rulers before they shifted to the new capital of Jaipur
A shopping spree can also be arranged based on your interest and mobility challenges. Jaipur has long been famous for its arts and crafts, including the making of jewellery, enamel, metalwork, and hand printed cloths, as well as precious stone, marble and ivory-carving.
Services of a knowledgeable English-speaking local guide for a full day will be arranged for your convenience. The guide will meet you at your hotel and will drop you back after the tour. Local guides speaking French, Spanish, Italian and German etc can be arranged at an extra cost and can be booked depending on their availability. This service is best booked in advance. Our guide will travel in your car from your hotel; in case there is no space for him, arrangements for his transport can be made at extra cost.
The trip, a beautifully curated slow travel experience, is lots of fun, as there’s a great deal of flexibility to customize the tour according to your special needs and mobility challenges. You can choose the monuments you wish to visit and directly pay the entry fee at the ticket counter. This gives you the liberty to choose monuments as per your interest and accessibility. -You will use your own vehicle for this tour. If you have a big vehicle you aren’t allowed to use it for the ascent to Amer Fort.; in that case, a smaller car can be arranged for the to and from journey to the fort for an extra charge.
Arrangements are made for one standard wheelchair for the tour along with one assistant to push your wheelchair if need be. You will use your own vehicle for this tour. If you are looking to hire a wheelchair accessible van with a ramp, this can be arranged from Delhi and can accompany you for the entire tour. This van is equipped with a manually foldable ramp needing manual assistance to push the wheelchair in and out of the vehicle.