Mahendra Prakash

... but it made me feel more acclimatised). After travelling through Udaipur for about 20 minutes we pull into our hotel (Hotel Mahendra Prakash). Really lovely. But although our room was nice, the bathroom didn't have an extractor fan hence, the window was ...

... lake and  in the case of The Lake Palace Hotel float mysteriously on it. We hit jackpot with our hotel the Mahendra Prakash which is an old havali owed by one of the extended maharaja families. Beautilful old house with garden pool , individually ...

... ok, wanted to take us to a different hotel than we asked him, so we were very firm and told him to take us to the Mahendra Prakash, which we saw was top rated in tripadvisor, and we already had our booking. We told the driver we had already been in ...

India - Day 13 - Udaipur, Sunset and Delhi Belly The blog has ground to a crawl. The sun is splitting the skies, the pool is lovely and cool and the hotel is so peaceful.  We got ourselves together at about 4 and this time organised a car out to the ...

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 ...

India -Day 11 - Udaipur Sun, swim, pool, books and food. That summed up our day lounging in the garden by the pool.   We met 3 lovely older Australians staying at the hotel and in the evening we tagged along with them down to the palace gate where we ...

India - Day 10 - Mind-boggling drive to Udaipur Our driver collected us at about 10:30, enough time for some breakfast in the garden, a couple of Immodium, and we were on the way. The long drive took us out in to dusty rural Rajasthan. Any sign of ...

Day 14 of Suez and Andy's Great Adventure Those of you who have stuck with us so far may be relieved to know that the next two episodes are going to be brief... Last time we left you I was struggling through the night to make it to dawn. As dawn broke I ...

Day 13 of Suez and Andy's Great Adventure Temple and City Palace We woke to find we had a few more bites than we had the previous day. The little buggers must have been in the bedroom, secretly hiding from us last night. So, after our showers we loaded ...

From Mount Abu, it was an easy five hour bus ride east to Udaipur. We are staying in the attractive old part of the city where narrow lanes lined with little shops and temples lead to the shores of Lake Pichola where the fairytale City Palace sits ...

We travelled 2nd Class AC sleeper on the train from Delhi to Jaipur. It was our second experience of the indian rail system and was against expectations quite a pleasant journey. Just as the train was about to leave , on came seven uniformed men with ...

7 Jan Left Jodhpur Guest house around 9am and drove about 7 hours to Udaipur with a couple of stops along the way. Arrived in Udaipur late afternoon and had dinner at a roof top restaurant attached to a hotel.  Beautiful views of Lake Pichola. 8 Jan ...

I am writing today's entry from Udaipur or the Lake City, our first stop in the state of Rajasthan. Yesterday we explored a bit more of Delhi with our guide, Shiatan (spelling is almost certainly wrong).  After paying 150 rupees for tea and toast at ...

La route menant de Jodhpur a Udaipur fut simplement magnifique... La temperature descend de 5 degres reduisant ainsi l'usage de la climatisation. Les paysages verdoyants s'offrent a nous au meme titre que les singes langpur poses au bord de la route tels ...