Lose Yourself in The Ancient Merchant Trail

Bikaner, the fourth biggest city in Rajasthan, offers an intriguing arrangement of encounters with its guests. From lip-smacking food trails to the old trader settlements and brilliant bazaars, there is a considerable amount of things to do in the city. In any case, the one of a place to visit is the Merchant trail. The trail follows the unassuming beginnings of the founder of Bikaner to the last Maharaja of the kingdom – enabling you to see the presidential royal residences of these Maharajas. This area also provides some of the best places to stayin Bikaner.

Visiting the Merchant’s Trail

When staying at Narendra Bhawan, Bikaner, the agenda more often involves visiting some of the best exhibits of Bikaner. Among these, you will have an opportunity to see the Bikaner Havelis on the Merchant's Trail. The specific name brings to mind images of streaming silk, overwhelming mounds of fleece, maybe even flavors, camels, and traders that were brought in by the Maharaja.

Once upon a time, business in Bikaner flourished because of its prime area along the train routes amongst West and Central Asia. Valuable stones, silk, spices and numerous different things were exchanged by the Bikaneri traders. Enhanced by this plentiful exchange, the nobles and traders of Bikaner built royal residences, havelis and sanctuaries in red sandstone that stand unblemished till date. Many of these have been transformed in to palace heritage hotels in Bikaner.

There is no more exchange occurring on this old trader trail. However, it unquestionably offers a dazzling strolling trip over to Rampuriya Haveli,Daga Sitya Chowk, Rangari Chowk, Golchha Haveli, Kotharion ka chowk, and Punan Chand Haveli. This trail passes through the havelis and bright bazaars and offers you a superb understanding of the sheer wealth of the traders of Bikaner. Find yourself suitable hotels in Bikaner, to make the best of your stay there.

A Walk-Through

This trail is around the extremely celebrated Rampuria Havelis of Bikaner that is about four centuries old. As you head into the city, little shops and local residences seem to emerge and all of a sudden you will discover the lanes getting smaller and hindered with the stream of people and traffic. You now have to move around in horse-drawn carriages.

The engineering is not at all like anything you have ever seen. The havelis hold a large portion of its unique substance including a worship room, old furniture, partitions, old photographs, and so on. Most aren't generally open to the public and are covered and shut.

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In The Bazaar

How might one go on the merchant trail in a city without really visiting the bazaars? In this way, to get a genuine vibe of what the business sectors of Bikaner resemble today, consider exploring the Kote Gate region. The market is close to the exceptionally swarmed Kote gateway and looks as old as the city itself. 

A labyrinth of winding paths, barely sufficiently wide for individuals to walk, is packed with shops offering garments, adornments, utensils and trinkets of different sorts. Some paths are committed to exchanges of just a single kind; for instance, workshops of cloth dyers.

The Merchant Trail Goes On

From the Rampuria Haveli, as you stroll through the limited paths of this thickly populated zone, you can stop and take photos. The people here are normally friendly and wouldn't fret if you take photos.

There are numerous different havelis around, similar to the Kothari Haveli, Punan Chand Haveli and some others the names of which were not known, with shifting degrees of the detailed veneers, some of them genuinely momentous. This place still holds that old world appeal that is quick vanishing from our urban communities; there are takhts set on the sides of the paths where individuals sit and read daily papers or simply talk.

Staying in a hotel in Bikaner itself, will reduce your expenditures on travel and will help you absorb more of the history of the place. Book your rooms well ahead as Bikaner draws in thousands of people each year.