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Udaipur Slideshow
Udaipur
Travel Blogs from Udaipur, India
The Fairy Tale City of the Lake Palace
This city is amazingly different from Mumbai (Bombay). Udaipur is a beautiful city in the Rajasthan, famous for its lakes that have made it the historical home of royalty and the backdrop for several movies including the James Bond flick, ...
Udaipur
... preparing to make their sentiments known everywhere that is planned on his itinerary. But I'm having a fabulously relaxing time here in Udaipur. For this in part, I have to send heartfelt thanks out to my father for being born on that island just ...
Octopussy
... and honorable battle. Does any of this sound familiar? Are you a James Bond fan? Octopussy, the film, basically used Udaipur as its' "India" inspiration. And a whole lot of it really is right here. The Lake Palace serves as Bond's hotel and ...
Sista dagen i Udaipur
Idag har jag mest åkt runt bland några turistattraktioner här i Udaipur. Bland annat City Palace och Saheliyon-ki-Bari, The Garden of Maidens. I City Palace gällde det verkligen att hålla reda på vilka biljetter man köpt. Jag hade tre stycken, men ...
Udaipur
From Jaipur we took an overnight train which arrived around 7:00am in Udaipur. We took a rickshaw to a cute little place with terrible food for breakfast, and then made our way down to the lake. When the monsoons are poor the lake dries up, ...
Palaces, Sunsets and Cooking Time with Jaya!
... tourist 'guiri' thing! Ha! After a rather stressful visit to the palace we venture over to the more tranquil side of Udaipur escaping the crazy hustle and bustle of Indian streets- we found a lovely rooftop restaurant where we met Pedro a Brazilian surf ...
Animal Aid Hospital
... were up early for our trip to Sadhna which is an organisation which supports women's collectives throughout many parts of India. Unfortunately, the lady I had been corresponding with had been unable to make our meeting and everyone else there had limited ...
Confused taxi journeys, more scheming....
India -Day 12 - Udaipur The morning started with an Aryuvedic back massage in the spa followed by a few hours in sun. It was time to explore again. Off we went down to the holy lake where local people were doing their washing by the lakeside, or simply ...
Not a matter of if, but when
... dreams and trips to the bathroom followed for both of us. The next day we were traveling to Udaipur by way of Ranakpur, a 6 hour ride could have been terribly unpleasant by bus. Luckily we decided to spring for a private ...
India
... the toilet anywhere they like greatly adds to this! Anyways, we flew into New Delhi and immediately took an overnight train to Udaipur, an old capital city filled with lakes, palaces, and gardens. It seemed like a great place to begin. ...
Mad dogs and Englishmen
With my want for tranquility and a bit of peace sated by the delights of Udaipur, it is with a mixture of anticipation and slight melancholy that I set my sights to Jodhpur. As I prepare to leave in a couple of days, I have more than enough time to ...
Overnight Sleeper to Udaipur
... American Beauty on one of the rooftops. I've always loved the film but watching it sipping rosewater milkshakes with the nightime Udaipur skyline in the distance is an experience that will stay with me forever. We've also been for afternoon tea at the ...
Udaipur
In a nutshell: Saw the City Palace & stunning Lake Palaces in the Blue City, Udaipur... ------------------------- We arrived in Udaipur after a long day's driving and stayed in the hotel for dinner (giving Anil the night off to go and sink a few ...
Jodhpur to Udaipur
... basically they were all blinding each other. You couldn't make it up... Anyway some 10 hours after leaving Jodhpur, we arrived in Udaipur, well I thought we had but it took us a good 25 minutes from the outskirts to the very centre, so definitely a ...
Udaipur
... pressie shopping in case we didn't have the chance during the rest of our trip. Unlike lots of other parts of India we've visited, shopping in Udaipur is quite a nice experience, the shops are more like those we're used to and the shopkeepers don't hassle ...
City on the Lake
I spent the day wandering around Udaipur. It is my favorite city in India so far. It sits on a beautiful lake with hills all around. It was a perfect sunny day without being too hot with a beautiful blue sky (not easy to find in this country!) I went ...
Udaipur
We took a night bus to Udaipur (20 hours). India is a big country and the buses are very slow. Brad experienced the worst bathroom of his life when the bus stopped mid-way to Udaipur. The "bathroom" was just a concrete pad ...
Udaiper Romance
... white palaces sitting on a nearly dried up, polluted lake surrounded by garbage and human feces. But of course this is India, and I wouldn't expect anything less. The first thing that struck me about Udaiper when I was coming in were the ...
The White city
... . When back on dry land we looked around the fort. The Royal family still live there today and conincidently the princess of Udaipur was getting married in a few days. The fort was being decorated for the occasions and I admired the large vibrant pick ...
Birthday in Udaipur
Dear Readers: This last bit of the tour has been bang bang bang -- absolutely no time to get to the internet. One of my clients is letting me use his laptop wireless here in the hotel lobby. My birthday was the most amazing and wonderful day! We ...
Andy Wants a Tabla
We went to Chetak Circle, away from the old city area, which was your average Indian town scene, polluted and boring, though there was a musical instrument shop which suited Andy because he was on the lookout for a tabla. Once in there though it occurred ...
India Summarised
How can I possibly summarise my experience of India ? Will I ever forget the colourful, exotic, culturally diverse country that was 'home' for only two weeks?..... NEVER ! I will be totally honest and say that I was 'dreading' my time in India. I felt ...
Rajasthan's Romantic City
... a quite cozy setting, with good view of the lake and the old city. There really isn't much to see in Udaipur. There is a palace, a haveli, a Hindu temple, but none of them is anything extraordinary. The huge palace is divided into three parts, ...
Octapussy Film Location
... bed. Our electronic sleeping pill as we fondly call it. "So" I don't have to rearrange the furniture so our headphones reach. Udaipur is also considered a very romantic city with great views of lake with a couple of Palaces in it where the ...
Day 14 – Jodhpur to Udiapur
After a sumptuous breakfast our bags are collected and we are on our way along the busy roads of Jodhpur home to 1.2 million people. There are 21 cities in Rajasthan that have over 1 million people in them so we are never very far from the ...
Wildlife bonanza
... have to be kept in check, otherwise it'll be back to the more voluminous suits I have in the cupboard at home! I'm leaving Udaipur tomorrow, and heading into the hills towards the Ajanta and Ellora caves. I haven't yet had my fill of hills for the year, ...
The next chapter; Udaipur
... and to other random charachters throughout the city. Everyone had made our stay so comfortable - even despite the broken arm!!! But anyways, Udaipur is just as gorgeous a city. Its a little more upper class as far as tourism goes. the shops are a little ...
Comentarios sobre los Indios
... las cuevas de Ellora y Ajanta, son muy viejas y bonitas, subimos algunas fotos. Ahora estamos en Udaipur, supuestamente la ciudad mas romantica de la India, es bien bonita, con calles pequenas y lleno de turistas, tambien subi fotos. Manana nos vamos a ...
Octopussy, Cricket & Interview for National Paper
... and lovely" and "fair and handsome". The shopkeeper nearly had a laughing fit when I went to buy one. During our stay in Udaipur we went for a morning boat cruise on Lake Pichola and sailed past the Lake Palace (Where the James Bond Octopussy was ...