Written by léonie sidwick | 05 July 2010

Castle Bijaipur was built by the younger brother of Maharana Pratap, Rao Shakti Singh Ji, in the the 16th Century. The castle was turned into a hotel in 1992 and has a stable on site of Mawari horses. The landscape surrounding Bijaipur is sandy with palm trees and cacti but a short horse trek around the village and the surrounding countryside also took us across arable land, accompanied most of the way by an amiable labrador, that is until he decided to chase off an entire treeful of monkeys singled pawed. Watching the sunset over the Vindhyachal Range from the back of a horse is a great way to round off a days sightseeing. A word of warning though, their Indian saddles are very different to European saddles and you may find yourself slightly more sore than expected the following day.