http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , India , Rajasthan , Udaipur en-us Thu, 03 Dec 09 10:17:40 +0000 Thu, 03 Dec 09 10:17:40 +0000 So after I logged off from the internet yesterday my guide invited me to his home for tea. In India it is common for the family extended to all live together. He lives with his parents his wife and 2 children and his brother's family. They have a few extra rooms so his father has been converting them to guest rooms to rent out. We had some chai and visited a bit more. He was going to sho http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-455029.html Test blog. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-454205.html UDAIPUR Rajasthan is recently voted as the Best city in the world by Travel Leisure magazine. The city of lakes if often referred as Venice of the East. To know more about Udaipur please go to my blog www.UDAIPURtrip.com The blog as information about places to see in Udaipur and soon will be updated by best places to stay too. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-448435.html My arrival by train to Udaipur was like being transported into a different country. Saying goodbye to the 3 army officers I shared a cabin with and their machine guns which I hadn seen the night before I stepped onto the platform and saw more westerners than in the entire period since arriving into Mumbai a trend which continued at my hotel which was within spitting distance of Lake Pichola http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-444924.html We sat around Margao station in the late afternoon waiting for our train to Mumbai at 620. The main express train an hour earlier that we wanted to get was fully booked and it seemed like this later train was one that put on during high demand to cope. We found our carriage which was filthy and smelled of wee it looked like it may have been left in a rail yard for a while with the windows open http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-440184.html It's funny how quickly you get used to the finer things in life. Following the 'incident with the rat' in Pushkar we've steadily upgraded our way through Jaisalmer and Jodhpur culminating in our night in a maharaja suite courtesy of Peeping Tom. And now there's no going back Udaipur is a town of many palaces most now converted to hotels charging hundreds thousands in some cases of dollars p http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-424641.html Hows this New Logo and blog http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-424417.html The bus journey was quite a long one from ten at night till five in the morning. We were in the sleeping compartments which you have to reach by climbing little metal ladders from the seats. Most of us were in doubles and I was sharing with Wes. He is an expert at sleeping and went to sleep soon so I did not have too bad a time. Some of the others found the journey really wearying.When we arr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-417745.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-415719.html We arrived in Jaipur very late and checked into our prebooked guesthouse. We had the next day to expolre Jaipur but didn't really find much of intrest. We could have been in the wrong areas but we found nothing of intrest and the only things to do seemed to be expensive rickshaw tours.So we basically used the internet and did some planning for later parts of our trip. I also found out that both t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-398832.html la fin de notre dernier message nous parlions de se diriger Ahmedabad. En fait ce ft un court transit de 15 heures dans cette accueillante ville situ au coeur du Guajarat... rgion o le grand personnage Mahatma Gandhi est n en 1869. Qui est Gandhi Il est celui qui a contribu librer les indiens des mains des britanniques en 1947 et ce par la nonviolence Il est un grand symbole http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-397436.html The Lonely Planet describes Udaipur as '... the Venice of the East...' because the city is built around a handful of huge lakes. The centrepiece of the city is the Lake Palace which was built in the middle of one of the lakes also known as 'the floating palace' because it appears to rise right out of the water with no island around it. With thoughts of fairytale palaces in our heads we arrived in http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-396646.html Greetings After three fun frenetic weeks in India our only problem was food related . . . we were both starting to put on weight from all the dirt cheap and delicious curry dahl and nan. Here's the lowdown on week three which we spent in Rajasthan. Our first stop was Udaipur. We arrived somewhat weary from our sprint west so we were happy to learn that one of the big attractions in town http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-392158.html The Third World Experience Knowing what it means to not have to wait in line.ldquoWe from the Westrdquo who leave our lives of traffic lit corners and thirty page employee handbooks to explore what President Harry Truman first denoted as ldquothe developing worldrdquo often get confused by the strange disorder we find ourselves in when we step into this strange new world. As we enter http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-389377.html James Bond's Octopussy http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-383315.html There are two very distinct types of people in India with regards to the working population. The first put us to shame in that they often do jobs that we consider dangerous or unsavory and they perform their task reasonably well for more hours than seems humanly possible. Local bus drivers are a good example. They drive pathetically old vehicles over terrible roads for as many as twentytothi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-382460.html By the time we boarded the train from Jaipur to Udaipur it was long since dark and our sleeper carriage crowded with locals. Ive met a real mix of people whilst travelling by rail here mostly locals some on their way home others on business trips some chatty others not but the group we shared this journey with was by far the friendliest. We later discovered that they were two families als http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-382318.html Our time in Udaipur seriously took a sharp turn that we did not expect.Upon our arrival we were incredibly excited and easily convinced to try out one of the wonderfully described restaurants that was mentioned in our guidebook. And after not having eaten much on the bus that day we well deserved what we were getting ourselves into.As it turned out we walked ourselves right into one of the slickes http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-381808.html Pallontallaajilla oli joskus keskustelua siita mika olisi aidointa Intiaa. Monet paatyivat pohdinnoissaan Rajasthanin alueeseen. Mielestani nain ei voi sanoa etta jokin laani olisi jotenkin ylitse muiden aitoudessaan koska kaikki ovat niin omaleimaisia. Ymmarran silti ihastuksen Rajasthaniin. Jaipuria lukuunottamatta kaupungit ovat olleet hyvin kiehtovia paljon elaimia kaduilla islamilaista http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-381640.html Udaipurissa ollaan Kaupunki nayttaa ylelliselle. Vaikea sanoa mista vaikutelma muodostuu silla rakennuskanta on aikalailla samanlaista kuin muuallakin eli suurinosa rakennuksista on rapistunut. Ehka taalla kuitenkin on keskimaaraista enemman hyvakuntoisia ja palatsimaisia taloja. Kerjalaisia on kohtalaisen vahan ihmiset ovat hyvin pukeutuneita ravintolat ovat viimeisen paalle laitettuja ja ros http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Udaipur/blog-381406.html