City Palace of Udaipur

Entry containing 44 photos titled: A beautiful mother Shisha!, Henna paint on my arms, Mewargarh Palace, A small birthday party for a little girl, View from the roof top restaurant, local kids -sister and brother, City Palace, View from City Palace, view from City Palace

If you can cook it …….. you can eat it!Have just spent an amusing few hours with India’s answer to Jamie Oliver, just slightly older and less concerned with the effect of Body Odor on his customers (although having never met the real Jamie Oliver I am just making an educated guess that he washes regularly and uses deodorant – …

We had a very good flight from Mumbai to Udaipur with Air-India, a lady was sitting on one of our seats as we boarded, but it was no problem to get our seat back. On the only 1hr flight to Udaipur we got a nice lunch and we could also choose from several movies to watch on the plane individually, as each seat had a screen. Once in Udaipur we went …

India - Day 10 - Mind-boggling drive to Udaipur
Our driver collected us at about 10:30, enough time for some breakfast in the garden, a couple of Immodium, and we were on the way.
The long drive took us out in to dusty rural Rajasthan. Any sign of western influence disappeared as men wearing shirts and trousers gave way to men wearing …

7 Jan

Left Jodhpur Guest house around 9am and drove about 7 hours to Udaipur with a couple of stops along the way.

Arrived in Udaipur late afternoon and had dinner at a roof top restaurant attached to a hotel. Beautiful views of Lake Pichola.

8 Jan
The next day we went on a tour of the City Palace. It was built by the …

(S) Udaipur – what the travel books call the most romantic city in India. I can see why. The city sits in a small bowl with Lake Pichola, surrounded by mountains. In fact, 400 years ago when the Mewar Dynasty moved their palace from Chittorgarh to Udaipur, they made huge walls and gates to keep invaders out of this little valley.

We …

The last 3 weeks has been spent here in the Land of Kings where I have been lucky to see some beautiful temples, palaces and forts, step in a open sewer, have a bumpy camel safari and more!!
As the tourist season is coming to an end and the heat is intensifying places are becoming a little more deserted

Udaipur

Udaipur has a …

Admittedly after travelling for over 20 hours virtually anywhere looks pretty damn appealing, but our first impressions of Udaipur were universally good. The water is all pretty clean making the overall smell of the place much much nicer, the streets are cleaner, quieter and made up of lots of kool little shops in small back alleys & rooftop …

Entry containing 60 photos titled: Day One - Udaipur, Udaipur, Hector chilling at the Lal Ghat, Jess at Lal Ghat, Lal Ghat Guesthouse, People washing in the ghats of Udaipur, Hector and Jess on Jagmandir Island, City Palace, Lake Pichola, Enlightenment, Peacock mosaic, Ivory door, Our view, Hector!

Entry containing 36 photos titled: Wow! The boat to our hotel, Lake Palace in distance is a hotel, Visited City Palace, Royal family's winter palace, City Palace, Our hotel -- very nice!, Interior courtyard of hotel, Pretty mirror work, Dinner with a family and cooking demo

... the Aravali Mountains that surround Udiapur. After breakfast we meet Darveen our new guide and we are off to the City Palace of the current Maharajah. Over many centuries the Maharajah's have created four palaces in Udiapur, the City, the Summer (in the ...

... and integrated with the original building that it becomes difficult to believe that the building was not conceived as a whole. The city palace of Udaipur stands along the shores of Lake Pichola. Approach to the city palace is through the 'Hati Pol' ...

... and integrated with the original building that it becomes difficult to believe that the building was not conceived as a whole. The city palace of Udaipur stands along the shores of Lake Pichola. Approach to the city palace is through the 'Hati Pol' ...

... catered towards tourists) it doesn't feel that way. We made our way towards one of the city's biggest draws the City Palace of Udaipur. Just as we were waiting outside the City Palace Ben got accosted by Nikki (a friend from Uni) and her boyfriend ...

... verily stuffing our faces as he piles our plates high with biryani, and also take a trip through the stunning imperial city palace of Udaip Singh. Like most of the Maharajas/Maharanas of Rajasthan, he's had to supplement his lost income by hiring ...

... have a meal there... so there was no way we could visit.  Overlooking the Lake Palace is an almost equally impressive City Palace, of which part has been turned into a museum.  There is also a large temple in the "middle" of the tourist ...

... which i'm sure you would much rather hear about than the goings on of my digestive tract... On Monday we wandered up to the City Palace of Udaipur which was just behind our hotel and overlooks Lake Piccolo, then we went on a boat ride to a hotel in the ...

... stop by for Kerela tips when we arrive next week in Cochin (Kochi). After breakfast we took a quick taxi ride to the City Palace of the Muwar (local regent). I recognized some of the pictures of the king in the Palace as matching some of the pictures I ...

... Temple. It was built by Maharana Jagat Singh Ist in 1651. It is an example of Indo-Aryan architecture. City Palace of Udaipur (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) City Palace, Udaipur, is a palace complex in Udaipur, in the Indian state Rajasthan. It ...