Surya Royal Hotel Kota
11 Jhalawar Road Kota, Rajasthan, 27804, India
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Last overnight bus EVER EVER EVER: Bundi
... this massive area with overgrown buildings, with smashed up glass mosaics and crumbling paintings. It was really atmospheric, and was fun poking around in all the rooms, and around the fort walls. The best bit was that there were literally hundreds of monkeys everywhere. When you enter the palace/fort complex, there is a stick bucket where you choose a stick to take with you up the hill to scare away the monkeys, as some are really aggressive. Sean was in charge of the ...
Von udaipur nach bundi
... versuchte sich mit 10 wasserschalen. sie tanzte dazu noch auf glasscherben oder einem blechtablett, das sie im takt der musik bewegte.
am nächsten morgen fuhren wir weiter nach chittorgarh, einer gigantischen festung, die einen ganz felssporn ausfüllt und einige kilometer im durchmesser hat. hier stehen alte tempel, ruinen und wehrtürme. unterwegs machten wir noch halt an einem alten tempel aus dem 8. bzw. 11.jht. hinter dem tempel stürzt ein bach über große felsplatten in ...
A step too far off the beaten track?
... what we found was completely decrepit at best and falling down everywhere else.
What a contrast from the plush hotel in Agra. We immediately wondered how the children would cope. It was a ruined old fort that that just happened to have a couple of rooms to stay in. The people that met us hardy spoke and certainly did not explain anything and so we were left to piece together how the place would work, when we would ...
An Octopussy-themed day
... to catch the train to Bundi, but I made a (relatively) quick detour to the train station first in order to try to book a ticket out of Bundi for a couple of days' time. As it happened, I needn't have bothered, as the one train a day from Bundi to Agra was fully booked, and all I could do was to pay a token amount to get put on the waiting list and hope there were some cancellations.
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Bundi, bikes, and more trains
... bus recommendations. I kind of gave up and decided to sort it out tomorrow when I'm there. Also I wasn't sure what train to book out of Agra back to Delhi and seats on all trains were already on waiting list. Oh sod it I thought again. Well at least tonight and tomorrow are sorted.
I soon left and walked down to the bike man, and rented a bicycle for the day. It was only 30rps. Bargain hey! Right, my plan was to take an easy ...


