Jantar Mantar - Jaipur, Jaipur

Price for this place is ₹300. Please visit when it's bright sunlight. This is world biggest time watch. The dials tells not just time also the position of Earth and Sun. Knowledgeable and to know about history time line. Guide is must. Good place to bring kids. Even if no guide no problem. Just find one inside with group and stand 🤫😉

Jantar Mantar is one of the oldest astronomical observatories featuring the world’s largest stone sundial, located in the heart of Jaipur. It is no longer a working science center but is maintained as a monument, and education activity sessions, guided tours and music and light shows, are organized here. Jantar Mantar in Jaipur is one of the largest observatories in the world, comprising of remarkable stone assemblies that help to interpret the position of celestial bodies and calculate local time. Enumerated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, Jantar Mantar attracts tourists, historians, astronomers, architects, mathematicians, and geographers. The collection of nineteen astronomical instruments in Jantar Mantar allows the observation of astronomical positions with the naked eye. The monument is an exemplification of architectural innovations that was built on ideas from different religious and social beliefs in 18th-century India