Blogs from Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, Asia - page 45

Hi, Filling the gap, here is the Rajhastan story, not very much to tell, that is why I did not write so far. Pushkar: Second time to Pushkar, it remains the same. Nice holy lake but too touristic. Udaipur: Second time to Udaipur. This time with water in the lake, last time it was almost dry, after several years of draught. Udaipur is a really nice city, touristic but the Inidans there are not so pushy as they are in Pushkar (and their Hebrew is not very fluent either). The hightlight of the city is Lake Pichula, in its center there is Lake Palace which is a very luxury hotel. Octopussy movie (James Bond) was shot in Udaipur so almost every restaurant shows this movie evrey night. Bye, Sharon ... read more

Tout d abord a ceux et celles qui s inquietent pour moi, arretez ca ne sert vraiment a rien. Cela dit cela me touche de le savoir. Je ne me suis jamais sentie en danger - vraiment - , je suis prudente et les 'mesaventures' potentielles que je peux avoir concernent l argent. Les rickshows qui pretendent que l hotel nexiste plus c est juste pour m emmener a un hotel ou ils ont une commission. mais quand on sait ce qu on veut et qu on est ferme pas de probleme. Alors, Udaipur la venise de l orient : Une ville construite autour de 2 lacs qui communique avec des palais sur des iles. Il parait que les annees precedentes les lacs etaient a sec et que c etait un vrai depottoir a ciel ouvert. ... read more

The overnight bus was not so bad namely because I insisted on seat number 1 which meant there was no one in front of me to recline into me. There was a bit of a mix up during the bus switch in Jodhpur as someone else had seat #1 on their ticket but I was having none of that. I passed time showing the bus drivers' assistant my photos before I caught a few hours of sleep before we hit Udaipur at 5:30am. I tagged along with two Korean girls on the bus to a non Lonely Planet hotel named Minerva. I turned out to be fantastic and only $5 per night for a sweet room with clean, large en suite. I caught some zzzzz's and woke around noon. I immediately set out to wander the ... read more

We spent the first half of today wandering around Udaipur and looking at a few palaces. The first one we looked at had a crystal gallery where everything was made of crystal, including massive dining tables and lounge sets. Although they were very beautiful, we got a bit bored after the first three. Also had a look at apparently one of the better attractions in Udaipur - the Durbar hall. Sadly it was just a big dusty hall with lots of pictures and old furniture. Looked very British. Next was a tour of the City Palace. This allowed us to wander around the main palace that the King of Udaipur used to live in. Unfortunately a lot of it was in disrepair or rather just very old and gross looking. The architecture was very interesting, and ... read more

In Ahmadabad we had three hours between the two journeys, which we decided to spend in the station's restaurant. Our train was to leave at 11 p.m., but the place already closed at 10 p.m., so we walked to the platform to find the train already there. This train was almost empty, it did not seem very popular, no wonder as it took nine hours for only 380 km! This time we chose one middle and one upper berth because the last time it had been very cold on the upper berths. We immediately realised that this train was smaller, the single berths on the other side of the aisle were missing. This stretch was a metre-gauge one and we had read in the papers that the government was about to unify the track system to ... read more