Venice of the East
Trip Start
Dec 27, 2005
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Trip End
Jan 15, 2006
Udaipur,
India
Saturday, January 7, 2006
In the evening we went to a dance show of cultural Rajasthan dances. It was really fascinating. Once again the pictures from this section should describe the dances better than I could ever have done.
On our way back, we stopped at a Hindu temple. They had a service of some sort when we visited. The architecture was quite finely carved and was beautiful.
Dinner was at the lake Palace. It was an awesome location. Decent food although, quite overpriced by even US standards. It must be the "privilege" of eating at a palace in the middle of the lake. Drinks were NYC prices at $10 minimum a drink.
Udaipur is such a picturesque city that there isn't much to write about. We did visit the old market and it was essentially a time capsule from hundreds of years ago. People, livestock, dogs living with one another in narrow streets. The nice thing here is that the population density is much smaller than the places we've been so far.
Art Galleries
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We accompanied Gita on a few shopping trips to local art galleries. The artists in Udaipur are very talented but the painting prices are US Prices. It is difficult to judge the prices because art is already so subjective that when you add the uncertainty caused by the bargaining culture it really makes it difficult to understand the fair pricing and fair value of the painting. I saw a few paintings I liked but I did not want to pay $200-500 for them. Gita bought 2 paintings but I was not brave enough to follow suit.
