Distance~10 km
Time neededHalf day
TypeTown
Best timeAny afternoon
01 — 04
About the place
The rail gateway to Ranthambore, with a genuinely good handicraft scene and the country's most famous guava orchards.
Most visitors see Sawai Madhopur as a railway platform and a road out to the gates. It repays a little more attention. The town hosts Dastkar Ranthambore, a craft centre where women from villages displaced by the park's creation now make textiles and block prints — one of the more thoughtful conservation-and-livelihood projects in the country. There is a good local market, the Ranthambore School of Art, whose tiger paintings fund conservation work, and the guava orchards the district is known for across India.
What makes it worth it
Dastkar Ranthambore craft centre
Ranthambore School of Art — tiger paintings funding conservation
Local market and the famous guava orchards
The rail gateway from Delhi, Jaipur and Mumbai
Before you go
A good use of the gap between a morning and afternoon drive.
Buying at Dastkar puts money directly into local households.
The station is well connected to Delhi, Jaipur, Agra and Mumbai.
Ask us and we will arrange a car and a driver who knows the town.
