Udaipur Stories


Finishing off Rajastan with two close calls.

After Mom left, I headed on to Jodhpur back in the non-AC class train car. Jaipur is known as the pink city and Jodhpur is the blue city. Both those nicknames are quite accurate when you compare the photos. I didn't find Jodhpur to be nearly as interesting or impressive architecture-wise but its fort is up on a cliff overlooking the city and the view...


The Pearl of Rajasthan

Aren't places always called things like "the Paris of..." or "the Venice of..." or "the Pearl of..."? It's almost always nonsense: Bucharest is no Paris, Suzhou is no Venice and Shanghai is hardly a pearl. Honestly, I'm not even sure why I got onto this tangent because Udaipur isn't called any of these things by the guidebooks, only by us. Udaipur is, s...


The Palaces of Udaipur

As we get ready to leave from India, we decided to go on one last trip to see the great palaces of Udaipur. Again we found ourselves all piled into a vehicle, this time it was with a couple of Grish’s Dad’s friends. Most of the palaces in Udaipur are turned into extravagant hotels as a source of tourist revenue. Thanks to some connections with a famil...


Week three - Jodpur - Jaisalmer - Udaipur

Three historic cities within Rajasthan: Jodpur, Jaisalmer and Udaipur. Jodpur is dominated by an amazing uninhabited fort and is the worst place I have ever visited. The open sewers, streets strewn with litter, food for the cows which looks like vomit and runny cow pats made my stomach turn the second my auto-rickshaw dropped me off. To make matters...