Sanganer:
12km away on tonk road it has beautiful Jain temples and important craft
industries beside the ruined palaces, broken city walls, triple gateways and
neglected Mughal garden. Large and small units of block and screen printers
produce some of the finest hand printed textiles in the country admired
everywhere.
Bagru: It is 35km southwest on Ajmer road. The
ground level fort is still in good shape. Its attraction is hand printed
cloth industry. The designs are simpler here, the technique less complicated
and the colors of more earthy shades.
Ramgarh
Lake: 32 km away to the north-east It is famous for its huge artificial
lake created by constructing a high bund amidst tree covered hills where the
citizen throng in a large number for picnic during the rainy season. The
temple or Jarnwa Mata and the ruins of the old fort still remind of its
hoary antiquity.
Samod : It is 4o km to the north-east.
The old palace renovated and rebuilt provides the most gorgeously decorated
and painted examples of Rajput haveli architecture. It provides an ideal
spot for outing.
Bairath: 86km on the Shahpura-Alwar road,
it contains the relics and structures at Mauryan, Mughal and Rajpur periods.
The excavated remains of a circular Buddhist temple unique in Rajasthan and
the earliest temple in India make it an important historical place. Akbar
the great constructed a mint and his son Jahangir a beautiful Mughal garden
and a remarkable monument with painted chhatris and walls.
Abhaneri:
128km northeast off the Agra road near Bandikui. It is famous for the
temple of Harshad Mata built in the 7th-8th century and the stepped Chanda
baoli. Two Jain temples were built at a later period.
Sambhar: 94km away in the west, it is famous for the country largest
inland salt lake. It is also known for holy Devayani tank, the palace and
the nearby Naliasar.
Jaisinghpura Khor: 12km off Amer
road. One of the settlements of the Meena tribe, it has an imposing fort, a
Jain temple and a step well in picturesque location.
Madhaogarh Tunga: 40km on Bassi-Lalsot off Agra road. One of the
historic battles between jaipur forces and Marathas was fought at Tunga.
Commanding a splendid landscape, the fort of Madhogarh nestles amidst mango
orchards.