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Saheliyon ki Bari

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Saheliyon ki Bari — the Garden of the Maidens — is an eighteenth-century pleasure garden in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, laid out by Maharana Sangram Singh II for a queen and the forty-eight attendants who came with her in her dowry. Its fountains have no pumps: they run on water piped down from Fateh Sagar and gravity alone. Entry is small, roughly ₹50–100 for foreign visitors, and it opens around 09:00.

Fees & timings

CHECKED AGAINST OFFICIAL SOURCES · AUGUST 2026

Entry — foreign visitors≈ ₹50–100, verify at the gate
Entry — Indian visitors≈ ₹10–30 · under 5 free
Hours≈ 09:00 – 19:00, extending later October–March
PaymentCash only at the gate — no online booking
Allow45 minutes
Built forA queen of Sangram Singh II and the forty-eight maidens in her dowry

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No official fee page exists for this garden; it is not listed on the state portal. The figures above come from independent sources and vary between them, so treat them as indicative and carry cash.

Fountains with no machinery

Every jet in the garden is driven by gravity: water is fed from the Fateh Sagar lake above and falls through a system of channels, so the pressure comes from height alone. Nothing pumps, nothing is powered, and the whole thing has worked without an engine since the eighteenth century. Ask the attendant to switch on the lotus-pool jets — they usually will.

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Fees and hours read off independent sources — no official page exists on 27 August 2026. They change without notice — check before you go.

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