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The Lake City
... pleasant contrast to the bare concrete, dirt and dusty trees.
We made innumerable stops in random towns and there seemed to be heated negotiations every time someone got on or off. Perhaps that's just the way they normally talk to each other. For much of the journey it was standing room only so despite our discomfort we were still happy to have seats.
In one of the villages we were halted by a wedding parade coming the other way. People danced in ...
Love Is In The Air
... inside & was packed with tourists. Though the palace did have views overlooking the whole city & lake, as well as the palaces on lake.The detail they put into the palace walls & ceilings etc is crazy!
After the tour, we booked a boat trip on lake Pichola, which is one of the main lakes in Udaipur. The boat trip went around the lake palace ( where the couple we met in the Jain temple were staying & you can have munch there for a stupid amount of ...
More India!
... their architecture and their textiles and we heard lots about these two things. Because we had missed out on the Palace visit because it was hosting a wedding (the palace where Liz Hurley got married, whoever she is!) we talk a mini walking tour through the houses to the time tower in the middle of the market. This was interesting as the track was very steep and slippery and full of rubbish, cow pat, cows and local people. The nice thing about ...
We'll take the corner palace room, please.
... feet. We climbed the hot steps to get inside, where Jain faithful were sitting on the ground, singing and playing a drum in praise. The sound put a catch in my throat. The rhythm and the cadence of the singing sounded so much like a funeral song of the Northern Cheyenne, I nearly burst into tears.
By this time, we had already been cornered by a little man, who had deformed eyes. He informed us he was an art teacher and taking 11 students to New Mexico next week. ...