The train from Delhi to Udaipur was another twelve hour sleeper train stint. We managed to find the station, platform, and even our seats with surprising, and indeed out of character for us on this trip, ease! The driver that we had booked also met us without a hitch, although he does remind me of a cross between an 80's gangster, and a kind of Marbella playboy. Rob thinks he looks like the man from Del Monte. Our first impressions of Udaipur and Rajasthan, were that it seemed completely different to the rest of the Indian states that we had visited so far. Even at 8 in the morning it was roasting hot. We were staying by the Lake Palace, and there wasn't actually a proper lake because of the drought. In the evening we went
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