"Pink City" a Jaipur Travel Page by ladagspa

"Paint the town RED (read as PINK)", one look at the city of Jaipur and one will surely believe in the reality of the phrase. A flamboyant showcase of Rajasthani architecture, this capital city of Rajasthan is also a part of the famous"Golden Triangle". The old part of Jaipur comprises of the pink city, where most of the buildings are painted in rose pink color. The urbane part of the capital city has got palaces of exuberant 18th and 19th century. These salmon colored facades of the city's ornately decorated vernacular buildings form an exotic backdrop for the swirl of typically Rajasthani street life.

Jaipur was and remains the only city in the world, symbolizing the nine divisions of the universe, through nine rectangular sectors sub-dividing it. The city also offers a vast storehouse of traditional crafts such as esthetic enamel-on-gold jewelry, studded with precious stones or pearls & turquoise that one sees in miniature paintings. The bazaars of Jaipur are renowned all over Asia for hand-dyed and embroidered textiles, ornaments and are also well equipped with the finest selection of precious stones and metals in India.