My trip to Toor ji ki baori or Toor ji ka jhalra Stepwell in Jodhpur Rajasthan

Toor ji ki Baori or Toor ji ka Jhalra – One of three stepwells I visited in Jodhpur

I visited Jodhpur in Nov’16 and visited some fantastic sites like Mehrangarh Fort, Jaswant Thada, Umaid Bhawan and a few more. But for me, this tour was to capture and add pictures/ content in my collection of Ancient Indian Stepwells, that are worth seeing.

So after visiting Mehrangarh Fort and Jaswant Thada, I parked my car at Sardar Market, famous for its Clock Tower.

Sardar Market & Clock Tower

From here I walked and asked like 30 odd people where I can find Toor Ji Ki Baori, and every one of them said – what?

You see in Jodhpur, local call stepwell as “Jahlara”, not baori or baoli. So a person corrected me & told it’s Toor Ji Ka Jhalra, and it’s just two blocks away. Finally, I reached Toor Ji Ki Baori or to say it correctly Toor Ji Ka Jhalra.

Toor ji ka Jhalra

Toor Ji Ka Jhalra is a nice, clean stepwell, which is said to be as old as 6th century AD (not sure whether it’s correct).

Toor Ji Ka Jhalra is the first stepwell site in India I have seen, where there are fishes & that naturally means that the water here is clean.

Clean Water

Along with capturing photographs, which I have added below, I also gathered some information about Toor Ji Ka Jhalra.

Before 1996, Jodhpur has more than 50 active stepwell sites which were an important source of water for the locals. But in 1996, the Indira Gandhi canal project was introduced in Jodhpur, via which water came to almost all homes in the Blue city via pipelines, and these stepwells were reduced to garbage dump sites.

Toor Ji Ka Jhalra was lucky as survived. Some local temples included this site for religious ceremonies & took proper care of this baori.

Have a look at some images I took for my collection

Toor ji ka Jhalra

Stepwells of Toor ji ka Jhalra

Toor ji ka Jhalra

Stepwells of Toor ji ka Jhalra

Sardar Market Entrance

Clock Tower

2017-08-18T13:11:20+05:30By Jatin Chhabra|Jodhpur, Rajasthan, Step Wells|28 Comments

About the Author: Jatin Chhabra

Hi all, I am Jatin Chhabra, born and raised in Delhi India, For me traveling isn't just a hobby, its more than that. More like a way of living my life and I do it every last week of every month. Attraction which attracts me are Off-beat ones and I always try to visit them before me or they, get perish.

28 Comments

Steve Briggs at

There are so many great things to see in Jaipur , all i saw was the tourist rubbish . Unfortunately when i got there i was really tyred ( id ridden from goa ).
- Jatin Chhabra at
  
  This one is in Jodhpur, 335 km from Jaipur. But you are most welcome to visit Jaipur again. And I would suggest you to check Tripadvisor India before planning a sightseeing tour, anywhere in India. I do it all the time. and you can also check my tour taxi site where I am planning to start a blog to – RajputanaCabs.in
Neeraj Malik at

Wow good work keep it up
- Jatin Chhabra at
  
  There are still two more stepwell sites worth visiting Jodhpur. Will share them soon.
Purvendu Kalpana Sharma at

Cool m about to visit thr too in the month of January … & Jaiselmer
- Jatin Chhabra at
  
  Do visit Sam sand dune area near Jaisalmer and also the sites between Jaisalmer and Sam like Kuldhara haunted village, Kabha fort and one more which I can’t remember.
My Unfinished Life at

Nice to know about the step wells in jodhpur and this one certainly looked very clean and water fresh!!
- Jatin Chhabra at
  
  Yeah this one is quite clean, but slippery :)
Purvendu Kalpana Sharma at

thanks fr the info I would surely do , u r welcomed for one more time ..
Jpr Arv at

Jatin Chhabra great going…how many Bawris have been ticked off till now from your list?
- Jatin Chhabra at
  
  17 out of 58 :)
சரண்யா இரா பா at

Can u share ur itinerary in jodhpur?
- Jatin Chhabra at
  
  You just contact Mr Singh from Rajputana Cabs. His number will be on this site – rajputanacabs.in – I personally drove from jaipur – ajmer – pushkar and jodhpur in a cab.
Shabnam Bhar at

Superb view
- Jatin Chhabra at
  
  Thanks :)
Upamanyu Roy at

Thanks for sharing your experience, it is great to witness the the heritage of mewar.
Ambika Choudhary Mahajan at

I missed this on my last visit to Jodhpur. Am fascinated by baolis too
Sumit Bhardwaj at

Old ia gold
Pranshu Dubey at

video of this stepwell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcwYI3Y1C24
- Jatin Chhabra at
  
  Nice video Pranshu. How did you create this video?
Anil Razdaan at

I am not sure if these images are of Toorji ka jhalra (or Toorji ki baori). They seemed to be of Chand Baori in Abhaneri. I have lived in Jodhpur for early life, and graduated of Jodhpur Uiversity, in 1969. I am planning to visit Jaipur/Jodhpur in near future, just to show my kids my Sardar School, Pratap School, Lachoo Memorian College ( when it was first established on Pratap School Grounds), etc.
- Jatin Chhabra at
  
  Hey Anil. this is Toor ji ki Baori or Toor ji ka Jhalra, as you can see that the 1st image is from Sardar Market & Clock Tower in Jodhpur. So I walked from here towards Toor ji ki Baori, can’t wake from to chand baori which is 400 km :)
  
  Beside, check out my post in Chand Baori, as it was the stepwell site I visited. Here is the link – jatinchhabra.com/trip-mysterious-step-wells-abhaneri-chand-baori/
Salman J. Khan at

Nice Details with all places cover very well. Keep it good work sirji.
- Jatin Chhabra at
  
  Thanks Salman…
Leo at

We’ve visited this Baoli in 2012, when they had to clear the building from the trees and plants growing all over the place. They were just about ready to ump up all the water in there.

Got pics and some video shot back then. revisite in 2014 and hardly recognised it. lost part of it’scharm when restored unfortunately.

Visited 23 Baoli’s in total in 2014 in Rajasthan..
- Jatin Chhabra at
  
  23, that’s good number man… I have plans to cover a few more stepwells in Delhi and Lucknow, and a few more in Rajasthan. If possible, please share the names of stepwells you visited in 2014. Will try to cover them too…
Sukinesh at

In all the stepwells you have visited have you seen crystal clear water anywhere … Like good enough for Freediving?
- Jatin Chhabra at
  
  Freediving….. Panna Meena Kund, as thats not well guarded, rest some have local security and many are not clean for diving.