City Palace of Udaipur

1st October - 2nd October - UDAIPUR

Matt - 1st October

The drive to Udaipur was the best drive we have had since being here, with a fair few stop offs and sights along the way.

The 1st was a textile factory just outside Jodhpur. Vinod said to us there was no pressure to buy, they just liked showing people around and if …

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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 …

Hotel - Sheraton Palace Udaipur (muy bonito) Pichola Lake - boat riding. City Palace - museo viendo todo el palacio. Muy Bonito! Al salir fuimos a restaurante Sunset (antes de subir al palacio) a tomar cervecitas y ver el atardecer …

We had little difficulty in dragging ourselves off the tiny thin mattress at 3am, to catch the train from Agra Cantonment to the Pink City of Jaipur. Our hotel, Anuraag Villa could not have been more different to our lodgings in Agra - cool, clean and quiet. Being British, we walked the 5km to the City Palace in the midday sun - crazy, but the best …

India is a beautiful mess! The day to day sights, sounds, and smells are pretty overwhelming, and we are told to expect them to intensify as we move further north. As Dan mentioned, getting the train up to Rajasthan was tough.

There are many classes of train travel here which is quite confusing at first. We've been mainly travelling ' …

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 …

Founded in 1559 by Maharana Udai Singh II, Udaipur, the famous 'City of Lakes' is widely regarded as Rajasthan's most romantic destination. Surrounded by Aravalli hills, the tranquil waters of the largest lake, Lake Pichola, make an impressive setting for the city's three stunning Palaces. In contrast to this romantic idyll, our arrival in Udaipur …

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 …

... 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 ...