Jantar Mantar, Jaipur

Afteir visiting Jantar Mantar at New Delhi. It was refreshing to visit Jantar Mantar at Jaipur. It is more well looked after and not hemmed in with buildings like its Delhi counterpart. However my only concern is why do they have a sarkari timing for all the monuments in Rajasthan. The monument `shuts down' to visitors at dot 5pm. Thats just when the sun is going down and one can get amazing photographs of the astromnomical buildings built by Jai Singh. In Delhi the Jantar Mantar opens are 7am. There are morning walkers and joggers who come here with a special pass. Besides them a dog or two also sneak in and chase each other around the various `yantras'.

Jantar Mantar, Astronomical Observatory,New Delhi

Jantar Mantar in New Delhi was built in 1724 by Raja Jai Singh II of Jaipur. It is an astronomical observatory with masonry instruments. It has has instruments that can calculate the movement of sun , the moon and the stars. Jantar Mantar Delhi has the Samrat Yantra, Jai Prakash, Ram Yantra, Niyati Chakra, Misra Yantra. The other observatories built by Raja Jai Singh are in Jaipur, Varanasi, Ujjain and Mathura.