Jodhpur Tour Packages

Two to three hours with a guide covers the museum galleries, the period rooms and the ramparts, and Jaswant Thada, a short drive away, adds a little more. The museum opens every day from 9 am to 5 pm, so a 9 am start keeps you ahead of the midday heat. Our Mehrangarh Fort tour includes a government-approved guide and help booking tickets in advance; the tickets themselves are paid separately.

In places. The way up to the palace courtyards is a long ramp, and inside you cross old stone floors, with steps between the galleries. The museum also runs a one-way lift, which helps older travellers and anyone who finds steep ground hard. Wear comfortable shoes, carry water in the warmer months, and tell us about any mobility needs so that your guide can plan the route around them.

For the blue-washed houses of the old city below Mehrangarh, which you see best from the fort's ramparts and then on foot. The lanes are narrow and busy, so walking them with a local guide is the easiest way to find the viewpoints, the markets and the street food without getting lost. The Royal Rajasthan Circuit and the Rajasthan Grand Tour give Jodhpur two nights, which leaves time for the old city as well as the fort.

Yes, either way. Flights from Delhi land at Jodhpur's airport, about 5 km from the centre, and direct trains run from Delhi, including a Vande Bharat from Delhi Cantonment. On our routes you arrive by road instead, from Jaipur, Pushkar or Udaipur, with your own car and driver, and the North India Classic Tour leaves Jodhpur by air, flying on to Varanasi via Delhi.

It is a white marble memorial to Maharaja Jaswant Singh II, built by Maharaja Sardar Singh and often called the Taj Mahal of Marwar, a short drive from Mehrangarh. It opens every day from 9 am to 5 pm. On the Mehrangarh Fort tour it can be added the same day, with its ticket paid separately; routes that give Jodhpur two nights leave time for it without rushing.

It is a two-day festival of Marwar's folk music and dance, held each year in the Hindu month of Ashwin, in September or October, with events at the clock tower and on the dunes at Osian. Among its events is a camel tattoo show. Rajasthan Tourism publishes the dates each year; tell us if you would like to be in Jodhpur for it.

For most visitors, April to June is hard going: May averages 41°C by day and June 40°C, and the fort's stone ramparts take the full sun. If those are your only dates, plan Mehrangarh for the 9 am opening, keep the middle of the day indoors and walk the old city in the evening. From October to March days are warm rather than hot, and the walking is far easier.