Travel Rajasthan : Hawa mahal, The icon of Jaipur

Jaipur is capital of Rajasthan in India and the icon of Jaipur is Hawamahal. Jaipur is also known as Pink City, being all the buildings inside walled city actually pink. Europeans call Jaipur Paris of India.

It is situated in the Golden triangle of Indian tourist map along with National capital Delhi and Taj fame Agra. Jaipur is a famous tourist place that attracts millions of indigenous and overseas tourists.

Jaipur is the favorite destination for American, Australian and European tourists. Large numbers of travelers come from European countries such as Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Spain, France, England, Germany etc besides American tourists.

Tourists visiting national capital Delhi and Tajmahal (Number one among seven wonders of the world) in Agra normally visits Jaipur. Hawamahal, icon of Jaipur remains the most attractive place for all these tourists and travelers.

Hawamahal is the center of attraction for the tourists visiting. 'Hawa' means air or wind in Hindi language and 'Mahal' means the palace. Hence, the word Hawamahal refers to "The wind palace".

Hawamahal, the icon of Jaipur is an example of superb architecture of medieval age. It is specially designed for hot and dry weather of Jaipur. Cool breeze flows continuously instead of hot weather inside the palace because of its special design.

The architectural design is based on certain scientific principle. Hot wind becomes cool when contracted. Hawamahal has hundreds of small sized windows. Hot wind compressed while entering through the small sized windows and becomes cool. Hence, air enters into the palace is always cool irrespective of weather.

Hawamahal is situated near to City palace, the main residential palace of Jaipur Royal family. The Royal family of Jaipur used to come and live in Hawamahal during summer season and hot summer days.

There was a famous program of music broadcasted through radio named Hawamahal. This shows the popularity of this palace.

Jaipur is among top destinations for tour and travel. Hawamahal is the icon of Jaipur. Hence tons of material available in the web about the same. There is no use of repeating the similar material in this hub.

Unfortunately, almost nothing is available about the inside view of Hawamahal. My son has taken a tour inside the palace and photographed. He has taken photographs of each and every place inside. I am posting some of those 96 pictures here. You can take a tour starting from the main gate of Hawamahal to the inner core of the wind palace.

I dedicate this hub to Darshan Kothari, my son. He can celebrate his efforts if you like it.

N.B. Photographs of ground and first floor is shown in this hub. I will be showing more photogrpahs of Hawamahal in the next part of the hub. This will cover second and third floor of Hawamahal, the icon of Jaipur.

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