ALWAR - TIGER GATE OF RAJASTHAN

Alwar a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan is enclosed by Aravalli hills.
The city has flourishing jungles around the hills, lakes and a first sight image of being carved out of rocks. The jungles and the basin is home of numerous types of birds and animals.
The city and places nearby have many forts, palaces, temples with intricate decorations that make Alwar a delightful architectural wonder.
Alwar founded by Maharaja Pratap Singh in the second half of the 18^th century, was formerly known as Ulwar but a king changed the name simply for the purpose of brining it on the top of alphabetical order of names of the cities.
Although Alwar has many historical and interesting sites, Alwar is best known for The Sariska Tiger Reserve which is located in Aravalli hills is only few kms from Alwar.
Sariska tiger reserve was formerly the hunting place for the kings of state of Alwar, but after independence of India, it was declared as wild life reserve and is covered under project tiger.
Sadly, however as per the census of 2005 there are no tigers left in the jungles. The jungle however has number of other wild creatures like leopards, jungles cats, hyenas, jackals, sambar and chowsingha.
This reserve has some other temples of 9^th and 10^th century namely Neelkanth Mahadev Temple and Garh Rajor. The Kankawadi Fort is located near the centre of the reserve.
Bala Quila is the fort in the Alwar standing on 300 meters steep cliff; nobody knows who built it because it was built even before Moguls came to India.
Alwar is famous for terracotta statues, carpets, shoes, bangles and pottery. There are various bazaars, mainly, Bazaza Bazaar and Saraf Bazaar.
Alwar is 160 kms from Delhi and 150 kms from Jaipur, both are linked by air to other important cities.
There are many hotels for the budgeted but the luxury hotel Neemrana Fort Palace hotel built by restoring the ruins of the fort is very interesting.