Amber Fort
A hill fortress of courtyards and mirrored halls, reached the old way: on foot, uphill.
- Where
- Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
- Grade
- UNESCO heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 8 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 26.9855, 75.8513
Get the Amber Fort stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Amber Fort. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Rajasthan volume with your photos and a note.
Near Amber Fort
Sheesh Mahal 0.0 km
A hall lined in mirror and coloured glass, said to light from end to end by a single candle.
Amer Sound and Light 0.4 km
The fort lit from across the Maota lake after dark, which is when the scale of it reads properly.
Panna Meena ka Kund 0.6 km
A sixteenth century stepwell with criss crossing stairs on all four sides, so no two people meet coming up and down.
Jaigarh Fort 0.7 km
Holds Jaivana, cast in 1720 and among the largest wheeled cannon ever made, fired exactly once.
Man Sagar Lake 3.3 km
The lake Jal Mahal stands in, dammed in the seventeenth century after a famine.
Jal Mahal 3.6 km
A five storey palace in the middle of Man Sagar lake, four of those storeys under water for most of the year.
Garh Ganesh Temple 5.1 km
A temple below Nahargarh that Jai Singh built facing his own palace, with no trunk on the idol.
Nahargarh Fort 6.4 km
Built to guard Jaipur from the ridge above it, and never attacked, so its walls are as its builders left them.
More UNESCO World Heritage sites in Rajasthan
Questions
Where is Amber Fort?
Amber Fort is in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Sheesh Mahal (0.0 km), Amer Sound and Light (0.4 km), Panna Meena ka Kund (0.6 km).
How do I get the Amber Fort stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Amber Fort and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Rajasthan volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Amber Fort before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Rajasthan volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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