Rajasthan Vacations

For many, Rajasthan is the very essence of India, with crenelated forts and impregnable palaces that rise like giant fairy-tale sets above dusty sun-scorched plains and shimmering lakes. It's a place peopled by proud turbaned men and delicately boned women in saris of dazzling colors. Much of India's second-largest state (similar in size to France) is covered by the ever-encroaching Thar Desert, but...