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Jai Mahal - lake palace, Jaipur: 19 reviews and 38 photos

 
 

The Jal Mahal (Water Palace) is located on the main Jaipur-Delhi highway about 8km (5 miles) to the north of the city. The palace was built as a summer resort and pleasure spot by Sawai Pratap Singh in the year 1799 in the middle of the beautiful Man Sagar Lake. It is one of the finest and most exotic pieces of Rajput architecture reflecting the technical excellence and knowledge of the builders of those times. Even the Man Sagar Lake is a man made lake formed by constructing a dam between the two hills by Sawai Man Singh II for meeting the growing demands of water by the residents of Jaipur city. Those demands must still occur as there was no water when I visited. I was told that the monsoon had been very poor in Jaipur that summer.

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