Jagdish Temple 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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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 …

Forty-Eigth Day in India - February 23, 2013
First Day of North Trip - Traveling

There is nothing like starting possibly one of the best 2 weeks of your life just a little late. After waking up a solid 40 minutes late, I rushed my cold shower to be ensure being ready for 5:30 AM and be on the bus. After finishing up my packing and …

My guest house was gorgeous, though the owner's family lived there and they were slightly noisy, but I have my earplugs :-) I left my bag there and explored the Jagdish temple first. It was pandemonium there, surrounded by beggars and police. Then I went to the enormous City Palace. It wasn't as interesting as the ones in Jodhpur or Jaisalmer, I …

So we set off to Udaipur, another big city in Rajasthan. The difference between here and the other cities is the fact that we went up into the mountains! The drive was great, so many good views, if not a bit sketchy in places. It seems you can take the driver out of Delhi.....
On the way up Izzy thought the hallucinations from the malaria …

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

Does anyone else not like planes with propellers rather than jet engines? They never seem that modern to me – anyway that's what we flew on from Mumbai to Udaipur. The flight was fully booked so we seemed to be lucky to get on it although maybe everyone was doing what we did and booking with Jet Airways instead of Kingfisher since they’ …

... day in Udaipur I wander back to some art stores and end up purchasing some mini paintings, with haggling of course, I visit the Jagdish temple, and then before sunset I go for a stroll around the City Palace, Udaipur's most famous building along with the ...

... the rickshaw drivers. Even so, after leaving our packs at left luggage we headed for the old town and the Jagdish Temple, a Jain temple with lovely sculptures, some amazingly cool ones of women playing sitars. Having had an alcohol free Christmas and ...

... . It was still quite beautiful though, and the view of the town, lakes and countryside below were great. We visited the Jagdish Temple (Hindu) in town, which has an Indo-Aryan style with carvings depicting all sorts of scenes from everyday life. Once ...

... area is along the north-east section of Lake Pichola. Within a few minutes walk are beautiful old havelis, the Raj´s Palace, Jagdish Temple, ghats where woman and their children still come down to the lake to wash clothes, and winding streets where you ...

... head whilst dancing and practically doing push up's!  Second day we went and visited the impressive city palace and Jagdish temple and then Mish did some more shopping....!  Unbelievable how cheap things are over here.  Meal for 2 ...

... to offer, we visited the City Palace Museum although there were far too many groups of tourists, and we saw the beautiful small Jagdish Temple where we watched a cluster of bright pink and yellow, blue and green sari'd women singing to their God. It's a ...

... with the Jagdish Mandir, a stepped temple to Vishnu in the centre of town atopped with two large marble elephants. NOTE... Jagdish Temple Jadish Mandir also known as Jagannath Rai Temple is devoted to "Shri Lord Vishnu" - The lord of Universe. ...

... is shown nightly at several restaurants each night and we watched it over dinner overlooking one of the movie sets, the Jagdish temple. Very cool. We spent a week here and enjoyed having many meals on rooftop restaurants. The views are terrific and ...

... with the Jagdish Mandir, a stepped temple to Vishnu in the centre of town atopped with two large marble elephants. [b]NOTE... Jagdish Temple Jadish Mandir also known as Jagannath Rai Temple is devoted to "Shri Lord Vishnu" - The lord of ...

... and that's it...so I knew where I was off for dinner! Just had time to pop into the major temple in the town: the Jagdish temple. Up lots of steps and had a quick look round. This temple is one of the biggest shrines to Lord Vishnu (or one of his many ...