City Palace

Udaipur

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February 13th 2008
Udaipur The city with the white floating palace in Lake Pichola. Boat tour around the lake and palaces. Actually the shore side City Palace is really more impressive than the lake. Nice back streets and shopping but always hard to get the guide to deviate from the monuments to the everyday culture of the streets which is often a lot more interesting. Good photo ops. Better air. Maybe things have ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more