Air
Nearest airport: Sanganer, Jaipur (235km/ 5 hrs), connected by daily flights to all meters. Taxi costs about Rs. 1,500 to Kota.

Rail: Kota junction is well connected to Delhi by the new Nizamuddin-udaipurExpress, Mumbai August Kranti and Trivendrum Rajdhani superfast trains and to Jaipur by the Jaipur-kota fast Passenger and Jaipur-Bombay Centeral superfast trains.
Road: Kota is a comfortable 5hr drive along NH-12 from Jaipur via Tonk, Devli and Bundi. From Mumbai, turn right off NH 8 at Udaipur onto NH 76 for Kota via Chitturgarh, Debari, Bhatewar, Bhadaura, Bichor and Bijoliyan.

Saris to beat the heat: This is true story of a princess who married a prince of a tiny kingdom that stood on the edge of a desert, not far from home but nothing like home either which was Udaipur, lauded even then as a city of laks. Though Kota had a lake too, our princess couldn’t take the heat that would rise from the ground in the hot summer. So circa 1740 a palace called Jagmandir was built specially for her in the middle of the kishore Sager Lake. But she founded the heat stifling even then. And so the princess decided that she needed clothes that were friendlier to the breeze that sometimes blew her way. A royal order was passed and the weavers got to work. Perhaps they took inspiration from the thin ribbon-like clouds that streak the summer skies here for the new sari was just as light and ephemeral. The saris were very big hit and variations were spun quickly. In Kota-mungia or Kota-masuria the checks are supposed to be the size of a single grain of moong or masur dal. Now these saris are available in other colours. Drives to Khaithoon, a village of weavers 22 km from Kota, and you will see these saris stretched out on the looms. These will cost a few hundred rupees, alittle more if the gold border has used real zari.