JAIPUR - MANDAWA - BIKANER (Shekhawati Trait)
Jaipur is a popular tourist destination in India, it is India’s first planned city forming a part of the Western Golden Triangle tourist circuit along with Delhi and Agra.[14] The city serves as a gateway to other tourist destinations in Rajasthan
Mandawa once functioned as a trading outpost for ancient caravan routes in Shekhawati for goods from China and the Middle East. Thakur Nawal Singh, then ruler of Nawalgarh and Mandawa built a fort in to protect this outpost. Over time, a township grew around the fort and soon attracted a large community of traders, who then settled down at Mandawa.
Bikaner is situated in the middle of the Thar Desert and has a hot desert climate with very infrequent monsoonal rainfall and extreme temperatures. In summer temperatures can exceed 48 °C or 118.4 °F, and during the winter they may dip below freezing.
