Rajasthan countryside itinerary: 12 days in Chhatra Sagar, Rohet, Udaipur, Jawai, Chanod and Jodhpur
12 days · 11 nights · 6 stays · sample itinerary
Twelve days in Rajasthan’s villages and wild country: a tented camp by the Chhatra Sagar reservoir, the Bishnoi lands around Rohet, Ranakpur on the way to Udaipur, Jawai’s granite hills, the lakeside village of Chanod, and Jodhpur.
It is a sample itinerary — a starting point, not a timetable. Each night has a place to stay, named where one is known; check that it is open and has room before you book. No flight or train is named, and the times in the plan are placeholders. Open it in the planner and it becomes a trip of your own, starting a month from today, with the places to see already on their days.
Day by day
Day 1
Jaipur → Chhatra Sagar
Journey · 09:00–14:00
How is not stated. Times approximate.
Stay: RAAS Chhatrasagar, Chhatra Sagar
2 nights
Day 2
Birdwatching at the reservoir
Village walks and a jeep safari
Day 3
Chhatra Sagar → Rohet
Journey · 10:00–13:00
How is not stated. Times approximate.
Stay: Rohet Garh, Rohet
1 night
The Bishnoi villages, by jeep or on horseback
Day 4
Rohet → Udaipur
By road · 08:00–16:00
By road, stopping at the Ranakpur Jain temples. Times approximate.
Stay: The Oberoi Udaivilas, Udaipur
2 nights
Day 5
Crystal Gallery
Vintage Car Museum
Day 6
Udaipur → Jawai
By road · 10:00–13:00
Times approximate.
Stay: Bera Safari Lodge, Jawai
2 nights
Day 7
Leopard safari
A Rabari settlement
Birding at Jawai
Day 8
Jawai → Chanod
Journey · 10:00–13:00
How is not stated. Times approximate.
Stay: Chanoud Garh, Chanod
2 nights
Day 9
Chanod village walk
Birdwatching on the lake and salt pans
Day 10
Chanod → Jodhpur
Journey · 10:00–13:00
How is not stated. Times approximate.
Stay: Raas Jodhpur, Jodhpur
2 nights
Day 11
Mehrangarh Fort
A walk through the blue city
Day 12
Jodhpur → Jaipur
Journey · 10:00–18:00
Added so the trip ends where it began, in Jaipur: change it to wherever you go next. How is not stated. Times approximate.
How the route runs
From Jaipur to a tented camp at Chhatra Sagar for two nights, then south-west to Rohet for the Bishnoi villages. By road past the Ranakpur temples to Udaipur, then to Jawai for leopards and the Rabari herders, to Chanod for its lake and salt pans, and to Jodhpur below Mehrangarh.
What is left for you to fill in
No flight or train is named, and every time in the plan is a placeholder, marked approximate: choose the services that suit, and set the drive times with whoever is driving. Where a journey says how is not stated, choose how. The places to see have no time of day; add one if it helps.
A stay that reads "not named" is a night with no place to stay yet: choose one. A stay whose note lists others has alternatives worth comparing. Check that each is open and has room for your dates before you book.