Udaipur, Rajasthan

Udaipur (as seen in 'Octopussy')

We decided to blow the hotel budget again (another tenner or so a night) and booked into a suite at the Hotel Anjani. The 'suite' was more like one of the student houses Jon lived in in Bradford and the hotel housed the world's coldest swimming pool (brrrrrr !!!). We spent the couple of days in Udaipur wandering the streets looking for somewhere nice to eat (there isn't anywhere), taking a sunset boat trip on the lake and around the Lake Palace Hotel (now one of the world's top hotels - the Presidential suite costs a mere 3,750 pounds per night !!!), up to the monsoon palace at for the sunset on the last night and a trip to the very impressive Jagdish Mandir temple.

Pilgrim at Jagdish Temple, Udaipur

Whilst we were in Udaipur the festival season was in full swing with everyone throwing coloured tikka at each other, luckily we managed to avoid ending up a nice shade of purple.

Festival, Udaipur