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Falling in love with Rajasthan
Hypocrisy rules ok! We spend so much of our time in India being horrified by the corruption that is so much part of life in this country. But you find yourself on a packed railway platform in Delhi and find that Terry and I have confirmed beds on the overnight sleeper to Udaipur but Diana is wait listed so should not be getting on. Terry goes in to …
Some local flavour
... Come back at 6. There is a cable car at one end of town that takes you (as they do) to a point that overlooks the whole city. We had arranged for a rickshaw driver to take us there and back. When we got down from the cable car, no driver! We hadn't paid him yet, so we felt we had to wait for him, even though all of the other waiting drivers wanted us to go with them. We waited for about 20 mins and were just about to give up when he turned ...
Udaipussy
As seen in the James Bond Classic Octopussy Udaipur is an incredibly beautiful city in Rajastan, its like India but not covered in rubbish yay! Its got some amazing architecture and a huge temple in the centre not to mention about six palaces, some that look like they float (as used but the all-female assassins at the start of Octopussy) ...
Venice of the East
An early 6:30am departure yet a surprisingly pleasant 4.5 hr bus ride from Ahmedabad to Udaipur on a brand new Volvo a/c bus, if only all buses in India were like this.
Udaipur is famous for its lakes and palaces and is a really nice relaxed city. It's also well known for James Bond’s film Octopussy filmed at the Lake Palace ...
Italy with a pinch of spice...
... Normally we eat at a resturant and then chill for 10 minutes you now sit, let the food digest but here oh dear that was definalty not the case. The table was cleaned and set again and the waiters stood starring at us to see when we would leave. On the whole it was an interesting dinning experience i would definatly recommend doing it once and the food was great so no harm at all!
I have been travelling for 10 months ...