Udaipur was the only place on the whole trip where we didn’t book our accommodation in advance. The driver that brought us from Jodhpur dropped us at the Chandpole footbridge and we walked from there.
We wandered around until we found the hotel marked on this map. The area to the west of the footbridge seems to have a good range of accommodation options and is quite walkable. The area east of the bridge is a lot more crowded and difficult to walk.
If you want to see what the hotel looked like you can go here. Maybe it’s just a coincidence but the only hotel we didn’t book in advance was also the best place we stayed in India.
Udaipur is often described as “The Venice of the East” – which is a bit of a stretch, but I have to concede that it has a rather Mediterranean feel about it. There are plenty of chic cafes and souvenir shops and although you never really forget you are in India it has a very different feel to the other cities we visited. The architecture around Lake Pichola is literally palatial and you are never far from a striking view.
Varanasi blew me away but Udaipur came a close second as my favourite place in India.
But we do not exist in a vacuum and some news from back home came out of the blue. A terrorist attack in New Zealand left us stunned and appalled. These names should not be forgotten:
Lilik Abdul Hamid
Sayyad Milne
Hamza Mustafa
Khaled Mustafa
Atta Elayyan
Tariq Omar
Husne Ara Parvin
Ashraf Babu Ali
Ashraf Ali
Syed Jahandad Ali
Mian Naeem Rashid
Talha Naeem Rashid
Farhaj Ahsan
Syed Areeb Ahmed
Sohail Shahid
Maulana Hafiz Musa Patel
Dr Haroon Mahmood
Haji-Daoud Nabi
Dr Abdus Samad
Dr Amjad Hamid
Osama Adnan Abu Kweik
Muse Nur Awale
Mohsin Al Harbi
Abdukadir Elmi
Mohammed Omar Faruk
Hussein Moustafa
Abdelfattah Qasem
Linda Armstrong
Zeeshan Raza
Ghulam Hussain
Karam Bibi
Mohammed Imran Khan
Hussein Al-Umari
Junaid Ismail
Zakaria Bhuiyan
Abdul Fattah Qassim al-Daqqah
Ali Elmadani
Kamel Darwish
Maheboob Khokhar
Asif Vora
Ramiz Vora
Ansi Alibava
Ozair Kadir
Munir Suleiman
Ahmed Jamal al-Din Abdul Ghani
Ashraf Morsi
Ashraf al-Masri
Matiullah Safi
Zekeriya Tuyan
This video shows a quick tour of the elegant side of Udaipur. It gives an indication of the cost of tours to the palaces and a review of the artisans’ village at Shilpgram.
It also contains a commemoration of the Christchurch terrorist attack.
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