Tuesday, 10 July 2018

BIKANER - A Town too Far

Bikaner takes the cake for remoteness in Northern India. Poorly connected with other major cities in India and the tourist drag in Rajasthan, it took me the better part of the day and night to reach this quaint desert town close to the Pakistan border. The train to Bikaner from Delhi was rescheduled twice, finally arriving at 4 am in the morning, 12 hours behind schedule.

The major tourist attraction is the vast fort called Junagarh and the several palaces inside. Built between mid-16th to late 19th century, several sections with gilded ceilings and walls and incredibly astonishing paintings remain well-preserved for the heritage voyeur. Other equally large sections remain shuttered and left to the bats and pigeons. 

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