Enjoy a Royal Lifestyle
Gondal is a picturesque town with plenty of gracious architecture, wide tree lined roads and European lampposts. Here you can enjoy a taste of the royal lifestyle in the Riverside & Orchard Palaces which have now been turned into heritage hotels.You can play squash, watch scores of colourful birds, take a boat ride, enjoy continental food from colonial period recipes, stroll in the orchards, shop in the silver bazaar, and relax on the lawns.
The royal garages of the Maharaja exhibit a vintage car collection that includes some of the rarest cars in India.
Birding
For bird-watchers, Gondal has large water bodies where white pelican, demoiselle and common crane, black-headed, black and glossy ibises, comb duck, spotbilled duck, spoonbill and other birds gather in large numbers.The royal family’s grasslands are good for sighting prinias, larks, quails, francolins and other birds. Lesser florican often breed at these grasslands in August and harriers visit in winter. Ibises and waders are known to breed in Gondal too.
