Udaipur!! - Blogabond

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So Udaipur... we arrived very early in the morning in Udaipur after a bumpy bus ride.
So we arrive in the touristy center of the town, and of course everything is closed and a few people try to get us in their "amazing" hotels. After a while walking around not really knowing where to go, we finally follow one of them to his hotel... And we were actually not disappointed at all. The room was relatively big and very charming! So we could sleep for a while and rest from the bus ride.

Udaipur is build around a few lakes, one of them being right at the center of the touristy area. There is an island in the middle of the lake where a beautiful hotel is... but very expensive and you can only go there if you go sleep or eat at the rather expensive night buffet!!! So we only enjoyed looking at it from the outside.

The town is also famous, especially the moosoon palace, perched up on a hill, for being the place where the movie Octopussy, James Bond movie, has been filmed... A lot of restaurants show the movie at night, so we watched it, but it has to be the worst James Bond movie ever!! Anyway, it was fun recognising places from the town!

Across the bridge from the main area, we went for a drink in a garden restaurant and

enjoyed the view from the other side, where the palace of Udaipur stands. We also went to visit inside the palace but we got quite disappointed as is it very busy with tourists and very big but not so much charm... We can't deny that it was quite beautiful for some parts especially some wall mosaiques... but is wasn't as exciting as we thought it would be. We still had fun watching the exhibition of turabn with thew master piece: THE BIGGEST TURBAN IN THE WORLD!! yououohouuou!!
OK nobody can wear it as it is far too big but Ola would have loved to try anyways!!

Other interesting sight is the Jain temple. We got a student following us inside to do some explanations on the temple, who gave quite a lot of nice info, whether or not we

wanted it from the beginning! It is not very big but the main tower has plenty of little statues carved in it which is beautiful and full of details.

And last but not least, we visited an haveli (big old house) which was very beautiful and used to be the Maharaja guesthouse!

We also enjoyed going around town and seing the markets and bazaar streets. And doing a little shopping...

Next destination Pushkar! Over to you, Ola!

Kisses.

Agnes and Ola

written by

agnesola on March 8, 2008 from Udaipur, India

from the travel blog: Baby and Baby's around the world travel...

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