Every big city in Rajasthan is color coordinated. Wondering what I am talking about? See! Jaipur as pink, Jodhpur as blue and Jaisalmer as golden and finally Udaipur as white.

Food
Treat your taste buds to the royal taste of Rajasthan. For a South Indian like me, it was a blissful treat to have tasted so much of it’s delicacies. Indeed a Foodie’s heaven.

Arts and Artifacts
Whether it is the handcrafted wooden puppets or the metal souvenirs or the silver jewelry, name it, Rajasthan has it all.

Wooden Puppets
These wooden puppets are a delight to every visitor who drops by.Who knows, you can even watch a craftsman creating a puppet in the fort like we did or end up watching the ancient folk puppet dance called Kathputil dance.

Patch worked wall hangings
This is one thing which stole my heart. May be because of the employment it provided to many muslim women in rural Rajasthan or because of the creativity involved or because of my favourite topic of reusing the old cloth bits, I couldn’t find a single reason as to why I love this Patch-worked wall hangings. Wondering what I am talking about? Read here!

Parade of Colourful Jootis
While boarding our flight to Jaipur, my friend was intrigued by a co-passenger as to know where she had bought her jootis? When she said that she got it in a Rajasthan mela, he said being a Rajasthani he had never seen any jooti like that in Rajasthan.

But Guess what! It looks like he has never searched for jootis in the land of Rajas?

Durban wala land
When you are in the land of Durban, you can’t leave without buying your own right? You will find Durbans being sold in lot of places. We got our Durbans from Jaisalmer fort.

Colourful Street scenes
From the streets of Jaisalmer fort to the path leading to Amer fort, if I can call one thing common, it is the colourful street scenes that is synonymous to Rajasthan.

Say no to plastic
This one is going to nail you. In Jaisalmer, shop owners don’t give you plastic covers to carry your things. Instead they use cloth bits stitched in the form of a pouch for packing. Wow! What an idea sir ji?

Lost for choice of Souvenirs
Be it the iconic Durban Moustache T shirt or the Hawa Mahal fridge magnet or the colourful decorative items, I am sure you will buy as many souvenirs as possible in your trip to Rajasthan.

Colourful vibe
Where do you think, the otherwise monochromatic desert state would have got it’s vibe?

Of course from it’s people!

Rajasthani people love colours. You could evidently see it from the choice of colours they used in their souvenirs and their dresses. And look at these autos? You want anything more to prove?!

Shopaholic heaven
Well! Do you call yourself a non-shopaholic? Have you ever been to Rajasthan? If not, please go street shopping in Rajasthan, then come and tell me!

Whether it is the colourful shawls or Bandej sarees or intrinsic handicrafts, Rajasthan has a way to make even non shopaholics to go on a shopping haul.It’s really tough to refrain guys!

Cafe culture
Thanks to the huge number of foreigners who visit Rajasthan every year. Cafe culture in Rajasthan has grown so much in the recent years.

From Jaipur to Jaisalmer, there were interesting cafes we came across. If you had been reading my blog, you would have read about a cafe in Jodhpur named Cafe Royale which stole my heart with it’s food. Yum! Yum!

Lonely planet recommended or TripAdvisor recommended
Funny how almost every homestay or restaurant in Rajasthan is either lonely planet recommended or TripAdvisor recommended. There were places which seemed to have maintained the status of it. But few were terribly bad.

While searching for a stay near clock tower in Jodhpur, our search results ended us up in a stay named ‘Hare Krishna’.

Our instincts and few reviews said not to book the stay at Jodhpur, but we finally gave in to the fancy lonely planet recommendations. You know what! we ended up in a shabby room!

Whereas we went to a Lazzi shop and Sweet shop seeing the recommendations to find it worthy. So when in Rajasthan, go with your instincts than with these recommendations.