Someone once said,".. Umaid Bhawan home to big cats and small dogs.." The tigers and leopards, many of them shot in southern Marwar, are everywhere to seen and here in the marble ante-chamber, the Palm Court, guests may get a glimpse Gimlet and Miniature Dachshund, Pepsi, being taken out their morning walk

A Coutyard very much in the Rajput palace tradition but covered and on the upper floor of Umaid Bhawan. The Palace houses a fine collection of shikar trophies and the fountain is makde of Baccarat crystal. The cascading water strikes a different, and compatible, musical note at each fall. 

The Trophy Bar in Umaid Bhawan . Elephant feet stools with tiger skin cushions, gazelles from Africa and bears from Kashmir, astonishinly large wild boar tushes, binoculars from idyllic afternoons on the Serengeti and a collection of fishing gear from patient morninings on the crystal streams of Scotland.

The Billiards Room in The Umaid Bhawan with portraits of outstanding Victorian and Edwardian race-horses, and oils of horses from Maharaja Sardar Singh's race stable at the turn of century. Sardar Singh's colours, the Panchranga - the five colours, the Flag - flashed victorious past many a finishing post during those years, as the show-cases of silver cups in the Palace .

The sub-terranean swimming pool below the central Rotunda forms a part of the Umaid Bhawan's Zodiac Club, which includes, besides the billiards room, a gymnasium, a sauna, two unique marble squash courts, four tennis courts and croquet lawns to sunbathe on

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