Udaipur Travel Blogs

Okay folks, south Rajasthan and the much vaunted city of Udaipur.  One of the jewels of the tourist trail in Northern India.  In summation my interest was not as thoroughly tickled by Udaipur as I had expected it to be.  And I'm not entirely sure why.  Still thinking on it to be…

04/18/07Kalu picked us up this morning (apparently Nandu is meeting us tomorrow in Ranakpur and swapping jobs with Kalu) and we drove out of Udaipur heading into the Aravali Hills that stretch across Rajasthan.  Unlike other parts of Rajasthan, Udaipur and the surrounding areas are green and r…

Leaving my job teaching for a year, I am travelling around the globe...home just in time for Christmas.

      This is my last day in the city and my overall experience has been, um, unique.   For two more days Ahmed has been my chauffeur and travel guide.   Two nights ago we were on his motorcycle on our way up to the Monsoon Palace to watch the sunset. (My…

Most of my childhood and college time i spent travelling within india. Its vivid colours, numerous cultures and vast diversity interested me to travel more....... My first exclusive and memorable travel started in south india, i can't share the photogrpahs though. Udaipur has been the moment of truth and something provoked me to travel more.......

On the train ride to Udaipur, I met a gal who gave me some local sweets and did the best Indian "bobblehead" I've seen thus far.  She was a doll.  I showed her pics from my Bollywood experience, and she exclaimed upon seeing the main actor, "Did you get your picture with him? He is very f…

Today was the last day in Udaipur before boarding the overnight train in the evening to Delhi.  It was a free day so I decided to take a boat cruise on Lake Pichola.  Three of us went; the ticket office was only 5 minutes from our hotel.  The ticket cost included entry into the …

The guesthouse I stayed in here was wonderful, I had a room on the 4th floor with views across the entire lake. Spent the day I arrived visiting the City Palace, Monsoon Palace and Art Schools where they do miniature painting. There are a lot of painted elephants in the city, and camels too. …

I made a 17 days roundtrip in India's most famous province Rajasthan, visiting haveli's, forts, markets, spicy bazaars, maharajas and of course the Taj Mahal. I visited the places Nawalgarh, Mandawa, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Pushkar, Jaipur, Bharatpur, Fatehpur Sikri, Agra and Delhi.

Nicola:   27-11-2008   The sad story:   Today I woke up early to have a yoga lesson and I was waiting with the Yogi for other people to come. He was reading the newspaper that was in Hindi, so I could understand only the numbers and see the pictures. Every day i…

We staan om 06:45 op, want we willen om 08:00 uur vertrekken richting stad om bij Berry’s te gaan ontbijten. Als we voor het hotel verzamelen staan er al twee Tuk tuks klaar, maar één chauffeur is een andere dan waar we gisteren mee afgesproken hebben. Degene waar we gisteren de afsp…

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I've gone back and changed my previous blog so that I'm lambasting just Delhi and Agra instead of all of India. I figured I probably would after initially posting it, as India is just too big and diverse to be lumped into one category. So, what's new? I've spent the last 5 days in Udaipur, una…

We spent just over a week in Udaipur where we stayed at the Rana Castle Hotel, which had great views of the city from it's roof top restaurant.  We spent some time relaxing and wandering round the narrow streets and along by the front of Lake Pichola.  There is quite a lot to do in U…

I reached in the chilly early morning by bus, and headed to the railway station to find out about any day tour of Udaipur. The railway station is small and the doors were almost shut. I stepped in nevertheless, and saw that there was a tourism counter that would open later in the morning. So I look…