Shivniwas Palace Udaipur

... our room. On the fourth side of the square pond was a sizable altar containing a large statue of Ganesha (widely revered as the Remover of Obstacles) and several smaller statues of other Hindu deities. <br><br> The Lily Pond became a bookend to our days at the palace. As soon as we opened our door, we were greeted by the view and the smell of the flowers both in the pond and the rose and lily petals placed in large, glass, lens ...

... but adheres to a conventional ethnographic framework, including the obligatory photographs of dancing tribal women wearing too much talcum powder. Both museums have traditional puppetry, dance or music performances every evening, but the Bagore ki Haveli is more atmospheric.<br>Definitely worth a look are the royal cenotaphs at Ahar, 2 km east ...

... huge fruit bats taking flight over the lake after sunset!!<br><br>The biggest in Rajasthan, the City Palace is quite a lovely imposing structure, taking up half of the east bank of the lake. It&#8217;s got a façade of 244m long and 31m high, with cream towers, cupolas and balconies. Various maharajahs created additional buildings, but the original was constructed by M&#8217;a Udai Singh II (the city&#8217;s founder), in the 17th century. The following day I walked to the ...

... So one day in Udaipur, the so called Venice of the East... The city itself is well known for it's location on the Lake. However, it is best known for an Island Palace on the lake that was featured in Octopussy. Because of the connection dozens of restaurants in town play the movie every night, 365 days a year. Could you imagine being a waiter at ones of those ...

We reach Udaipur after yet another frustrating experience at a train station. I've avoided complaining so far but...On arrival at Ajmer train station the train to Udaipur was scheduled one hour late, of course over the next few hours this gradually stretched to three hours. I stood there watching the screen and every time the train was ten minutes away the arrival time would click back another half hour. Eventually, at three am we go to the platform for the displayed ...

... of yeafrs. Ou r hotel room is that way. Although we are on an upper floor, the pool is built on terraces and steps so that we walk out to our private patio to a private inlet of the pool. We walked through a garden that was built centuries ago only for women. Each section had a distinct fountain that was built to have the water sound like the design of the garden. There as a rainforest garden, a ...

... 3 amazing days and really enjoyed visiting the beautiful City Palace and the Jagdish Temple (beautifully carved pillars, decorated ceilings, painted walls and covered with sculptures of dancers, elephants, horsemen and musicians). "No pain no gain" The cheaper rooms at the guest house we initially headed to were full so we checked into ...

... the city of hills'. The roads snake their way around and over the hills, expanding the views of the surroundings, but more enjoyably these roads are what makes people motorbike. I try to keep to the best racing line so that I effortlessly weave with flow of the road. Long journeys on monotonous flat roads can border on unbearable but roads like these I could travel on all day everyday. So as the ride is going so well and the surroundings matching up ...