With our next destination, Udaipur, we had one main thing in mind…..relaxing. Surrounding Lake Pichola, with its heritage hotels, Hindu temples and impressive Rajasthan City Palace with water lapping at its footings, this town promised to bring us what we were looking for. Booking into our preferred hotel, the Mewar Haveli, we were fortunate to snare what seemed to be their best room. Three floors up and with large windows dominating two of our four walls, we had stunning views of the lake. This included a great view of the Taj Lake Palace Hotel (from the Bond movie Octopussy), as well as the equally and dare I say even perhaps even more impressive (certainly in the dark), Jagmandir Island hosting another floating hotel on the lake. All this was very impressive, however it wasn’t until our
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