(For photos of Udaipur, click on this link)
Before you start talking to Udaipur, I want to say that despite the beauty of this city, was my biggest disappointment Rajasthan. Indeed, acclaimed guides and hearsay, until I got a lot of the city "whose tastes seem out of fairy tales" (according to the Lonely Planet). But I want to reiterate that this is only my opinion ...
After over 7 hours by bus on terrible roads very bad, we do not find the taxi chartered by our hotel to pick us ... Never mind, we take a rickshaw and arrive at Rang Niwas Palace Hotel , little corner of paradise in the middle of an urban jungle ... Because after all we can say, much of Udaipur is quite ugly, far from the palace of a thousand and one nights described in the guides.
Our hotel is however a nice surprise! We had booked a suite, and we were not disappointed!
(For people who wonder if I won the lottery to afford a trip like this, I want to say one night in this suite costs about 30 € ... And yes it is in India!)
After a few hours rest, we went to dusk in search of the lake much talked about, which houses one of the most luxurious hotels and paradise of India. Unfortunately, we do not find that night. So we decide to go see the celebration of a deity in the inner city. As an adventurer in the extreme and finding no rickshaw trying to take us, we decide to hitchhike and are collected by Abhishek (very common name in India), an Indian very nice but in broken English that we will file to Chetak Circle. Once there, we learn that the festivities are over for a good half-hour ... Definitely, it's not our night ... we'll dinner before going to sleep in our beautiful little suite.
The next morning, we finally find the lake Pichola and take a short boat ride to reach the Jagmandir Island, a small resort in the middle of the lake, very cute, but no major interest ...
We then visit the City Palace , Palace of the Maharaja of Udaipur, but this time, the palace that broke the camel's back: we have seen in all cities, I'm tired and we have not taken a guide so we do not have the keys to understanding what we see ... The palace was very pretty, but we will go through at full speed ...
The rest of the day was much nicer to us wander through the narrow streets of the old city ... We visited the Jagdish Temple , beautiful temple filled with women in saris of every color ...
few hours of shopping and a dip in our pool later, we go into a small theater to watch a dance show Rajasthan and puppets. Some think it's a tourist trap, others will be impressed by some of the dances, we, we loved it! Here is a short video of the dances:
From there we went to dinner at the poolside of Shiv Niwas Palace Hotel , a very luxurious hotel within City Palace Complex. We were the only guests, I really wondered if Thibault had not booked the entire restaurant for us ! Fine foods, a very pleasant evening, exactly what he needed for me to finally keep good memories of Udaipur!
The next day we left Udaipur chauffeured car because I had bad memories of buses between Jodhpur and Udaipur (and I still want my princess to play a little ...). Next Step: Bundi, passing par Chittorgarh.
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