Elephant - on the way to Ooty
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Elephants are the largest living land animals on Earth today. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth, an elephant calf typically weighs 105 kilograms (230 lb). They typically live for 50 to 70 years, but the oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years. The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1955.
Boating at Ooty
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Ooty Lake has emerged as one of the foremost tourist attractions of Ooty in recent years. The Lake and the Boat House has been the major entertainment hub of the large number of tourists who flock to this beautiful hill station all throughout the year and particularly in the summer months.
Bloomed Pink beauty - Ooty botanical garden
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A flower show along with an exhibition of rare plant species is held every year in the month of May at this garden. The Garden is maintained by the Horticulture Department of the Government of Tamil Nadu and has a very wide variety of plants that include different types of roses, imported shrubs, rare flowering plants etc.
Beautiful roses - Ooty botanical garden
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This garden was laid out in 1847 by the Marquis of Tweedale and is spread over 55 acres. Lush green well maintained lawns, rare tree species (like the cork tree which is probably the only such tree in India, the paper bark tree and the monkey puzzle tree - monkeys cannot climb this tree), a 20 million year old fossilized tree, an Italian-style garden bordering a clear pool, a vast variety of flowering bushes and plants in myriad hues (exotic and ornamental), fern house with a vast range of ferns and orchids, are some of the many highlights of this garden.
Aerial view of a lake at Ooty
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Ooty lake is located in Ooty of Nilgiris district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It covers an area of 65 acres. The Boat house established alongside the lake, which offers boating facilities to tourists, is a major tourist attraction in Ooty.
Big Kadahas inside Aamer fort
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The minute mirror work adds to the grand appearance and royalty of the halls. The Amer Fort undoubtedly captivates the tourists with its artistic quality of delicate work. The mighty walls guarantee the protection of the Fort against the invasion of the enemies. The Fort is divided into four subparts.
Big Brass bell in Albert hall Jaipur
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The wide range of 19,000 objects were collected for the museum including pottery, furniture and wood work, metal ware, ivory carvings, stone carvings, textiles and garments, carpets, clay models, arms & armor, lacquer work, miniature paintings, musical instruments, jewelry, sculptures and Egyptian mummy made it world-class museum.
Big Arm Shield in Albert Hall Museum Jaipur
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“Industrial Art Museum”, now known as “Albert Hall Museum" and "Govt. Central Museum" is located in Ram Niwas Bag, Pink City Jaipur. It is one of the finest museums of 19th century.
Beautiful view of lake and hills from Nahargarh
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According to a legend, the Fort was named after a prince, whose spirit used to haunt the construction site.
Beautiful view of lake and hills from Nahargarh
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The term "Nahargarh" refers to "the Abode of Tigers", so it is also known as the Tiger Fort. The Fort was constructed mainly in 1734, however further additions were made to it, by the succeeding rulers in the 19th century.
Beautiful view of lake and hills from Nahargarh
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The Fort stands at the top of rugged point of the Aravalis and offers a spectacular view of the City. Keeping this fact in mind, the fort was made to serve as a means of supporting the security of Amer.
Beautiful view of lake and hills from Nahargarh
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Nahargarh Fort is the first of the three forts built by Maharaja Jai Sawai Singh of Jaipur.
Beautiful view fron top of Aamer fort Jaipur
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The Amber Fort is also known as Amer Fort is a prime tourist attraction in Amber at a distance of about 11 km from Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan.
Beautiful solid metal door in city palace Jaipur
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To accommodate tourists coming from all over the world visiting Jaipur and all other near attractions it offers hotels that will suit to all budgets. It offers luxury to cheap hotels which are equipped with all the modern amenities and facilities.
Beautiful Royal Flower Pot in Albert Hall Jaipur
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The galleries on the ground floor of the museum have been completely remodeled and restructured since 1959 in an attempt to depict the uniqueness of the dresses and jewellery of all the classes and tribes of Rajasthani people including the privileged class that mainly consists of Rajputs and the merchant class.
Beautiful Painting on the wall of Albert Hall Jaipur
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The second courtyard, up the main stairway of the first level courtyard, houses the Diwan-i-Am or the Public Audience Hall. Built with double row of columns, the Diwan-i-Am is a raised platform with 27 colonnades, each of which is mounted with elephant shaped capital with galleries above it. As the name suggests, the Raja held audience here to hear and receive petitions from the public
Beautiful painting on the wall of Aamer fort Jaipur
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Another version of the Sila Devi installation is that Raja Man Singh, after defeating the Raja of Jessore, received a gift of a black stone slab which was credited with link to the Mahabharata epic story in which Kamsa had killed older siblings of Lord Krishna on this stone. In exchange for this gift Man Singh returned the kingdom he had won to the Raja of Bengal.
Beautiful painting on the wall of Aamer fort Jaipur
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The legend attributed to the installation of this deity is that Maharaja Man Singh sought blessings of Kali for victory in the battle against the Raja of Jessore in Bengal. The goddess instructed the Raja, in a dream, to retrieve her image from the sea bed and install and worship it. The Raja, after he won the battle of Bengal in 1604, retrieved the idol from the sea and installed it in the temple and called it as Sila Devi as it was carved out of one single piece of a stone slab. At the entrance to the temple, there is also a carving of Lord Ganesha, which is made out of a single piece of coral stone
Beautiful painting on Gate of Aamer fort
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On the right side of the Jaleb Chowk there is a small but an elegant temple called the Sila Devi (an incarnation of Kali or Durga) temple. The entrance to the temple is through silver sheet covered double leaf gate with raised relief. The main deity inside the sanctum is flanked by two lions made in silver.
Beautiful painted gate in city palace in Jaipur
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An impressive stairway from the Jaleb Chowk leads into the main palace grounds. Here, at the entrance itself to the right of the stairway steps is the Sila Devi temple where the Rajput Maharajas offered worship, starting with Maharaja Mansingh in the 16th century till the 1980s, when the animal sacrifice ritual (sacrifice of a buffalo) practiced by the royalty was stopped
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