Once back in Udaipur, we visited the local spice market to get some pics. The market was sprawled over several small streets with most stalls set up in little shop fronts, rather than on the ground. Lots of people asked for photos as usual, so we spend a couple of hours snapping away then showing [...]
Mt Abu was recommended as a beautiful hill-station worth visiting (the only hill-station in Rajasthan) for a few days so we booked a car for 3 days and headed up there. A new 4 lane road is being built and work has started with blasting the new cutting all the way, thus destroying the reasonable [...]
The next day, we headed up to City Palace, entering through the large “Elephant Gate” at the top of the road where Jagdish temple is located. The palace building is beautiful, with turrets and ornate decorations on the outside. Inside the palace, the walls are covered in mosaics and painted murals – some in very [...]
Thursday, we headed out on a day trip to Kumbhalgarh and Rungapur. As we got away from town, the landscape was dry and desolate, with small hills and sparse vegetation. The hills were lined with low stone walls, there were miles of them marking off small paddocks or huge areas. The work which must have [...]
After the ride in the big old Ambassador into town, we checked into a room at the beautiful Jagat Niwas hotel in Udaipur. Udaipur is an incredibly picturesque town, with winding streets and steep narrow lanes. Known as the City of Lakes, the town is built around Lake Pichola, a lake made by Maharana Udai [...]