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Today was to be a day of luxury. We were off to Udaipur, a city in Rajasthan reknowned for its beautiful and huge palaces. In particular, the lake palace is the most famous of the lot, being situated in the middle of a picturesque lake and in fact having starred in the James Bond movie Ocotpussy.
Beautiful Udaipur
K.thambi2006-01-06 14:22:09
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Today was to be a day of luxury. We were off to Udaipur, a city in Rajasthan reknowned for its beautiful and huge palaces. In particular, the lake palace is the most famous of the lot, being situated in the middle of a picturesque lake and in fact having starred in the James Bond movie Ocotpussy.
The day started off with an early morning 6:50am flight to Udaipur. However, thanks to Indian Airlines efficiency, we discovered upon arriving at the airport that the flight had been delayed until 12:30. After yelling at numerous staff (I was a bit cranky since I had to get up at 4:30am) we decided to go into Mumbai to see Chowpatty Beach - one of the nicer places in Mumbai.
However, the dumb taxi driver took us to some dodgy Chowpatty beach. Although it was beautiful (nice palm trees like those tropical islands on a big sandy beach), there we a lot of beggars sleeping on the beach which kind of made it look a bit rundown. We didn't realise that it was the wrong Chowpatty beach, so I sampled some of the food from the local streetside vendors which looked dirty but had been recommended by the
Lonely Planet. I was only after I had eaten the food that we discovered that this beach was a different place and thus the filthy street vendors stalls were probably very much germ infested and that I could expect a bout of food poisoning shortly (these stalls were quite dirty because many of the beggars slept on the counters during the night, and there were many stray dogs sleeping inside them).
We wandered around on the beach and got into some interesting conversations with locals, and then decided to head over to the real Chowpatty beach. However, Mumbai traffic got the better of us, so we got half way there and had to turn back to make it back in time for our flight.
Arriving in Udaipur we were greeted by a hot steamy day but a beautiful room in a gorgeous palace (we had decided to spoil ourselves
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