{"id":1596,"date":"2026-01-15T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:26:50","slug":"celebrating-makar-sankranti-at-the-amazing-raj-palace-in-jaipur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/postcards\/celebrating-makar-sankranti-at-the-amazing-raj-palace-in-jaipur\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Makar Sankranti at the Amazing Raj Palace in Jaipur"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s no better place than Raj Palace<\/a> in Jaipur to celebrate Makar Sankranti<\/a>, the exuberant Hindu kite-flying festival that marks the sun’s turn northward. And that’s not surprising, because for almost anything there’s no better place to be than Raj Palace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year I was fortunate to be invited to their rooftop party.<\/p>\n

What awaited me was a lavish spread, a spectacular view of the Pink City’s rooftops, an air of celebration, and the Raj Palace hallmark: graciousness befitting kings and queens.<\/p>\n

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Makar Sankranti welcome drinks at Raj Palace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Makar Sankranti spread at Raj Palace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Gracious servers dole out delicious food<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Attention to detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the rooftop I marveled at the kites:<\/p>\n

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The rooftops of Jaipur pulse with celebration on Makar Sankranti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A sky alive with kites<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The enchantment grew as the sun set:<\/p>\n

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Sunset over the Pink City on Makar Sankranti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sunset over the Pink City on Makar Sankranti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And with dusk came magical airborne lanterns…<\/p>\n

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Launching lanterns for Makar Sankranti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Launching lanterns for Makar Sankranti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…and fireworks:<\/p>\n

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Fireworks for Makar Sankranti gild the rooftop of Raj Palace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Pink City aglow with lanterns and fireworks on Makar Sankranti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s no better place than Raj Palace in Jaipur to celebrate Makar Sankranti, the exuberant Hindu kite-flying festival that marks the sun’s turn northward. And that’s not surprising, because for almost anything there’s no better place to be than Raj Palace. This year I was fortunate to be invited to their rooftop party. What awaited…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[277,4,62,284,66,69,36,102,63,79,67],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-postcards","tag-fireworks","tag-india","tag-jaipur","tag-makar-sankranti","tag-pink-city","tag-rajasthan","tag-travel","tag-travel-photography","tag-travel-postcard","tag-79","tag-67"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}