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Sajjangarh, the Monsoon Palace

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Sajjangarh is a hilltop palace above Udaipur, Rajasthan, India — built by Maharana Sajjan Singh in the 1880s to watch the monsoon clouds gather, which is how it got its other name. It sits inside Sajjangarh Wildlife Sanctuary, and there is no separate palace ticket: the sanctuary fee at the forest gate is the palace fee. Entry ₹500 for foreign visitors, ₹150 Indian, 09:00–18:00 daily.

Fees & timings

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Entry — foreign visitors	₹500 · still photography free · video ₹1,320
Entry — Indian visitors	₹150 · student ₹50 · under 5 free
Vehicle	₹300 per car or jeep · ₹60 two-wheeler · ₹450 bus
Hours	09:00 – 18:00, open all week
Getting up	Autos are not allowed. From the base gate it is a shared forest-authorised jeep
One ticket, not two	There is no separate Monsoon Palace monument ticket — pay once at the forest gate

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Sajjangarh Biological Park is a different attraction with a different ticket (₹300 foreign, ₹40 Indian). The widely-repeated 'closed Tuesdays' appears to be confusion between the two — the sanctuary and palace are open all week.

A palace built to watch the weather

Sajjan Singh put it on the highest hill he could find for one purpose: to see the monsoon coming across the plain before anyone in the city below did. He died at twenty-six, before the astronomical observatory he intended it to become was ever built, so what stands is a viewing platform with rooms attached — which is exactly what everyone still uses it for.

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