(Photos of Chittorgarh and Bundi and clicking on this link)
parties Udaipur by car with driver 30 in the morning, we decided to make a stop at the fort of Chittorgarh for an hour.
Beautiful box, perched on a mountain with lots of small Hindu temples and Jain sculptures very fine, and a "victory lap" giving almost dizzy. Below, vast plains which once served as battlefield takes us back to the atmosphere of the wars of the time.
We will arrive in the small town of Bundi in the late afternoon and ask our backpacks to Bundi Haveli , small haveli relatively luxurious, and we still cracked ... (But the room was so cute!) And then we had tried to book in a small guesthouse strongly recommended by the Backpacker but it sold out ...
is also there, at Shivam Guesthouse, we went to eat something while watching the sunset sun between the two hills surrounding the city. We then soaked up the atmosphere of the city we Backpacking in the streets, and talking with Sathi, a man of advanced age managing a small shop selling a bit of everything, but especially the "best tired of the city, even the whole of India" and a special cake to taste with cashew nuts and saffron.
Everyone says hello in the street ... It's very funny! I also recall a small woman with a cane, who stopped and said a prayer on my t-shirt that displayed a sign depicting Hindu deities ...
In the street, we also cross a fanfare before celebrations of two horses and their riders are masked and heavily decorated bring to a close the march of a crowd dancing to the rhythms ... Marriage? Divinity? We did not really know, but in any event it was a nice surprise!
Back at the hotel, we reviewed Slumdog Millionaire , and this film really took a different dimension now that I'm steeped in the country ... I I noticed details that can not be understood if one is not ripe India, I understand some Hindi words in their conversations, and I realized how good this film transcribed agitation, colors and madness of this country, which I am now literally love ...
The next day, we breakfast at the Guesthouse Shivam well because we sympathized with the family of managers, then we visited the Garh Palace, Bundi Fort, through Billu, our guide ... very nice, but very tactile so I was very nervous in the morning ...
The fort was very interesting and the comments were Billu very funny:
"So here you can see that once again, the Maharani is drinking alcohol ... In the picture from his servant is to keep trying as it does more upright ... In this picture, women are now smoking opium chicha because they were bored a lot to play all day ... And on this, women are trying to hide groom themselves for the Maharaja's spying frequently, the rascal! "
By mid-afternoon, after being assaulted by a cow less peaceful than other (moment ... totally unlikely), we had probably one of the best time of our stay in Rajasthan ...
We had lunch at Uma Magh Garden Restaurant, on a small terrace just lakeside Nawal Sagar and we enjoyed a delicious dish in a small corner of paradise ... Total relaxation, pleasure for eyes and palate ... Everything was together ...
We watched the sun set over this magnificent small town, and took a bus the next morning, Pushkar direction.
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