Margot Bigg is a journalist who has lived in the UK, the US, France, and India. She’s the author of Moon Living Abroad in India and Moon Taj Mahal, Delhi & Jaipur and a co-author of Fodor's Essential India and Fodor's Pacific Northwest. Her stories have appeared in Rolling Stone India, National Geographic Traveler, Sunset, and VICE.
Margot Bigg is a journalist who has lived in the UK, the US, France, and India. She’s the author of Moon Living Abroad in India and Moon Taj Mahal, Delhi & Jaipur and a co-author of Fodor's Essential India and Fodor's Pacific Northwest. Her stories have appeared in Rolling Stone India, National Geographic Traveler, Sunset, and VICE.
Hi, I'm Margot!Margot Bigg is a journalist who has lived in the UK, the US, France, and India. She’s the author of Moon Living Abroad in India and Moon Taj Mahal, Delhi & Jaipur and a co-author of Fodor's Essential India and Fodor's Pacific Northwest. Her stories have appeared in Rolling Stone India, National Geographic Traveler, Sunset, and VICE.
Hi, I'm Margot!Margot Bigg is a journalist who has lived in the UK, the US, France, and India. She’s the author of Moon Living Abroad in India and Moon Taj Mahal, Delhi & Jaipur and a co-author of Fodor's Essential India and Fodor's Pacific Northwest. Her stories have appeared in Rolling Stone India, National Geographic Traveler, Sunset, and VICE.
One of Jaipur's newer but more popular holy sites, the Lakshmi Narayan temple was built in 1988. Dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu and his consort Lakshmi, this white marble structure contains images of deities and historical figures from across cultures and religions. Stained-glass windows illustrate scenes from Hindu myth.
Home to a community of rhesus macaque monkeys, this Hindu pilgrimage site sits on a complex of traditional sandstone architecture and multistoried water tanks. The temple is dedicated to Surya, the Hindu god of the sun.
Dedicated to the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha, Moti Dungri is one of Jaipur's most famous temples. Built in 1761, the temple houses an icon of Ganesha believed to date to the Middle Ages. During the annual Maha Shivratri festival, you can visit the shrine to the god Shiva, located on the hill above the temple.
Inside Jaipur's sprawling Amber Fort, the royal Shila Devi temple houses an idol of the Hindu goddess Kali (a form of the goddess Durga) that Maharaja Mansingh carried to the region from Bengal in the late 16th century. If you don’t mind crowds, visit during the Navaratri festival, a nine-day celebration of Durga.
