Jaipur Cultural Walk: A Unique Glimpse Into Local Indian Lifestyle Beyond Historical Sites
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Jaipur
Discover the authentic local lifestyle of Jaipur beyond the historical sites with the Jaipur Cultural Walk. Immerse yourself in the city's everyday hum, explore narrow alleyways, visit local artisans, taste street food, and create unforgettable memories in Incredible India.
Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Tripolia Bazar - Explore the designated areas of downtown where local artisans and handicraft makers ply their trade. Photography is allowed, while watching artisans making lacquer bangles, brass and metal vessels, polishing old kitchenware, dying cloth, making terracotta lamps and intricate marble statues. You will come across book binders, iron smiths, gold smiths, roadside barbers and dentists. You’ll soak in the colours and the smells and see that traditional craftsmanship and ways of living still exist.
  • Chhoti Chaupar - There will be a short tea break where we will enjoy “Masala-Chai” and some freshly cooked hot snacks. Later, we go down alleyways to find a wondrous assortment of incense and candles, wall decorative strings, natural perfume and herbal henna shops, then on to all the colours of a wedding goods bazaar where couples haggle over the price of Saris and jewellery.
  • Badi Chaupar - We will also visit a small factory where confectioners make curd, cheese and sweets from milk, where we can enjoy the taste of freshly cooked sweets. Then you will be guided through the spice bazaar, flower market, followed by the vegetable and fruit markets. There you’ll be intoxicated by the scents of spices such as cardamom, clove or cumin and the sweet fragrances of rose, jasmine and magnolia.
What's Included
  • Bottled water
  • Snacks
  • Tea and coffee
What's Not Included
  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off is excluded in a group tour
Additional Information

If you are looking to dive deeper into Jaipur city’s everyday hum and want to get to know the local lifestyle beyond the historical sites, Jaipur Cultural Walk stands out as offering the most unique glimpses into Indian culture.

The old city of Jaipur guided walking tour followed by the old Jaipur bazaar walk, narrow alleyways walk, visiting the local artisans at their homes, tasting some fresh and hot street food, Masala Chai, and unlimited bottled water, visiting old mansions and temples, live commentary by professionals and unforgettable memories from this cultural and spiritual country India. Take this opportunity to feel the daily local life of Incredible India.

Please be informed, that we do not have any hidden agenda and there are no games being played behind the scenes. We trust in pure tourism. This experience has been designed to avoid the common pitfalls of most tourist experiences

Location
Government Maharaja Public Library
Chaura Rasta Road
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Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Jamesag9520ep
Mar 31, 2024
Great way to see the sights and tastes of Jaipur - We very much enjoyed a marvellous walking tour of the Pink City of Jaipur with Kumar, who is obviously not only very knowledgeable, but also very enthusiastic about his city and culture. We enjoyed the various food offered and exploring the bazaars and streets, watching the artisans at work.
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Jenniferwu3834ct
Mar 28, 2024
Highlights of our trip - This tour was such a highlight to our trip. Kumar was so knowledgeable and full of fascinating information. Great way to go off the beaten track and see all the side streets and how people live in the city.
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Beckymalby
Feb 11, 2024
Fantastic walking talking and eating exploring Jaipur - Thank you Kumar for a great morning introduction to Jaipur. We really enjoyed our walking and taking and eating as we explored the bazaars and streets, and learnt so much. It was a fabulous morning, and we followed that the next day with a few more sights with our favourite guide.
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Tomgoulooze
Feb 9, 2024
On this tour, you'll experience everyday Jaipur - Arriving in Jaipur I was a little tired of the onslaught being in the centre of Indian cities; they can be intense and a bit too tourist friendly (in other words, you are perceived and treated as a walking wallet) But not on this walking tour! Harish is well spoken, calm & incredibly enthousiastic about his city. He'll show you places where real jaipurians live their lives, worship, and work (and don't really care about you walking around). He'll show you the schools where kids get their education, vibrant spice markets, temples, colourful vegetables vendors and the busy bazaars. The views were amazing. The impression I got was that Harish saw it as a duty to show me his city in a way I could understand it and not to deposit me at a spice shop or textile store like many rickshaw 'tour guides' will do to get commissions, there is a no shopping policy during this tour. Throughout I was not only fed great well cooked food and chai masala but also great life lessons (be like a traveler instead of a tourist, give your kindness to others like a sea instead of a well) All in all, if you find yourself in Jaipur and you'd like to go beyond the main forts and attractions, consider going on this tour.
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Global10949102836
Jan 24, 2024
Brilliant tour through Jaipur away from the tourist routes. - A truly extraordinary tour of Jaipur. Places you would never visit, craftsmen you would never see. You get to experience real local life on this tour. It doesn't get any better than this.
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348rachelt
Jan 10, 2024
Amazing introduction to Jaipur - This walking tour was a great way to get introduced to Jaipur. I was taken around for 3.5 hours and shown lots of hidden gems and given the chance to eat lots of delicious street food with confidence it wouldn’t make me sick. Harish made me feel 100% comfortable from the start. I can’t recommend him or this tour enough.
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845gerharde
May 22, 2023
Best of Walking Tour - Doing this tour is really worth it. Always enough time, no hassle and the love for the partially hidden and interesting features are the focus of this walk. We enjoyed having a respectful and fine person as a guide
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Teresa
Apr 8, 2023
Great, fun and felt safe in kumars company - Great seeing the pink city with a difference we visited the streets where the marble, the wood and the bangle makers were . We watched them work and it was fascinating. Kumar introduced us along our historical walk to street foods and drinks that I wouldn't have dared try alone. Highly recommend this walk
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Trinhhanhan
Mar 19, 2023
Learning the alley-life of Jaipur - It was my fifth day in Jaipur when going for the Cultural Walk with Kumar, but he was still able to show me many different sides of the city that I didn't know previously. We walked through different alleys of the Pink City, saw the Yellow City, listened to small historical briefs that Kumar gave, interacted with many workers, artisans, and small business owners. The life of the Pink City is so much more than its pink facade, and I was so grateful to learn more. We also had great samosas, chai, sweets, and lasee as well.
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Chrisrl5483gb
Mar 15, 2023
Great Introduction to Jaipur - Really good tour. We did this on our first day in Jaipur and it was a great introduction to the City. Kumar, the guide was exceptional. Thanks Kumar
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