Lassi 

The most famous clay-pot lassi in India, served from a tiny shop that has had the same recipe — and the same long queue — since the 1940s.

Sarnath Archaeological Museum

Hawa Mahal is Jaipur's most recognisable face — five storeys, 953 carved windows, built in 1799 so the royal women could watch street life without being seen. You've probably seen pictures. You haven't seen it like this: the plaza empty, the soft morning light working through all that lattice-work, and nobody jostling for a photograph beside you.

Your guide will tell you the story behind it — why it was built, what the design actually solved, what the royal protocol looked like. Then you take your photo and cycle on.

Thai Buddha Vihara — The 80-Foot Standing Buddha

You don't enter the City Palace — you cycle around it, which turns out to be its own kind of experience. The grand gateways, the layered Mughal-Rajput architecture, the scale of the whole compound — all of it reads differently when you're on a bicycle rather than in a vehicle, and there's nobody else around to break the spell.