Page 36 - Seniorstoday September 21

Travel

The Sands of Time

Going to the Pushkar fair

Navneet Sahni takes us through a driving holiday in North West Rajasthan

This is for the benefit of driving enthusiasts reason. The Delhi-Bahadurgarh-Jhajjar road
looking for a nice holiday to Rajasthan is quite okay and it is only after Jhajjar that
without Jaipur. I am sure that there are many the road becomes narrow. But it’s still very
like me who have been to Jaipur so many good. It is just that the Haryana State Road
times that they are looking to visit Rajasthan transport buses feel that they own the roads
without going back to Jaipur again. We did and bully all other transport plying on them.
two trips to Rajasthan, literally back to back After Loharu, you start seeing camel carts and
last winter and want to share it with you all. you know you have arrived in Rajasthan.
Given that hiring a self-drive is very easy now
a days, out-of-towners can take this holiday.
Given these tough Covid times, a self-drive
holiday is just what the doctor ordered.
We left Delhi on a misty early morning
for Mandawa. Now there are two routes
which you can take – via Bahadurgarh,
Jhajjar, Loharu and Chirawa – which is
unconventional but shorter and faster by
about 50 km (takes about six hours), than
the Jaipur highway till Rewari and branch
off to Mohindergarh route which is about Exquisite lattice work on a Haveli in Bikaner
290 km and takes about 7 hours. However, Mandawa is an important town of the
most people take the Jaipur highway for some Shekhavati region of Rajasthan and is often

36