Bikaner Tourism

Bikaner  Tourism

Bikaner is the region/district of the Rajasthan State, India. It is positioned at 330 kms distance in North West of the Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. Founder of Bikaner was Rao Bika (2nd son of King Rao Jodha), and the year was 1488. Rao Bika was trying to create own named state but was not able due to his father empire and expansion policy. However, later he got the chance to build own kingdom by creating the district Bikaner. The meaning of Bikaner is “city of Bika." The fort of Rao Bika was constructed in 1478 and named as Junagarh Fort. Presently, Bikaner is fifth biggest metropolis of Rajasthan.  The sweets and snack's items of Bikaner are world-famous. 

Fort of Junagarh: Timings for fort are 10am 4:30pm. The special things to watch in fort are the Chandra Mahal, Sheesh Mahal, Anup Mahal, Phool Mahal, Karn Mahal, Rang Mahal, Durga Niwas, Bijai Mahal, and Ganga Niwas. 

 

Attaining Bikaner

 

Internal Area of Train

 

By Air: the closest and biggest air head near Bikaner is Jodhpur. The distance is not more than 250 kms from Jodhpur to Bikaner. However, only domestic flights are reaching to Jodhpur so tourist might get some difficulties to attaining the city. Hiring the taxi from the airport can be Rs 2000 or more from Jodhpur to Bikaner.

By Train: railway station of Bikaner is properly linked to the big cities such as Howrah, Delhi, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kalka and Bhatinda.

By Bus: direct buses from Delhi, Agra, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Jhunjhunu, Barmer, Jaisalmer, Udaipur and Kota allow a tourist to reach Bikaner with no worries.