Travelling around India in 2017/2018 – Udaipur, Mount Abu, Jodhpur
Mumbai airport, in contrast to the city, is remarkably spacious and calm. There’s an art exhibition inside it!
More art in the airport
Waiting for my plane
In the Old Town
A rooftop view
I crept up on these two. They look human in the way they’re knitting their brows and scrutinising something, possibly me!
Fancy seeing a rickshaw here 😄
Tibetan market
Colourful backstreet
Gangaur Ghat
My first view of daytime Udaipur at breakfast from the rooftop restaurant at my hotel
Backstreet near hotel
These are the actual glasses Ben Kingsley wore in the film Gandhi!
This is a real man. I saw him sitting serenely.
Paintings are flat. Perspective may not have been discovered in India then or perhaps it was the style.
Breakfast at hotel
Vegan pizza
The swish Grasswood Cafe
Grasswood Cafe menu
The world’s largest turban! It has a diameter of about a metre.
The shadows make this look wonky but it is straight!
Vijaya Stambha is a victory monument dedicated to Vishnu
Gaumukh reservoir. The fort once had 84 water bodies has only 22 of them now. These water bodies are fed by natural catchment and rainfall, and have a combined storage of 4 billion litres that could meet the water needs of an army of 50,000. The supply could last for four years. These water bodies are in the form of ponds, wells and step wells.
Jain temple
Onlooking monkeys, who are remarkably well behaved!
This monkey appears to be contemplating as he looks at the plains!
Kirti Stambh, a 12th century tower
Padmini’s Palace
A view from below. The fort is about 150m above the ground. The fort’s circumference is 13km.
Early morning by the lake
City Palace after evening music and light show
Dresses
I love the sunset light here. Beautiful colours. I first saw it on the way back from Chittorgarh last night.
At the bazaar
The fort
A viewer from the fort
Inside the fort
A temple on the fort complex
Part of the fort’s wall
View from the fort. Your can see some of the wall in the foreground
A fort square
The fort
Ranakpur Jain temple
Inside the Jain temple
Inside the Jain temple
A view from inside the Jain temple
A close up of the marble carving inside the Jain temple
Inside the Jain temple
Inside the Jain temple
A view looking up at the central dome in the Jain temple
Inside the Jain temple
Lunch stop
Lake Nakki
We joined hundreds of Indians to see the sunset from Sunset Point
Air guns, apparently
Inside one of the Brahma Kumaris campuses
Inside one of the Brahma Kumaris campuses
Mount Abu town centre
Outside Jodhpur station
My train
Or footbridge, as we like to call it 😊. The people in the diagram look as if they’re falling off!
Yep, it’s Indian Railways😊
Woman sweeping the platform. This is a standard broom. Often they’re smaller and women are doubled over as they sweep!
Or disabled…
The Abu Road station platform
Another train
Just to prove they’re everywhere, here’s one of our friends patrolling the track
Takhat Vilas – the bedchamber of Maharaja Takhat Singh who had 30 maharanis and many concubines!
Moti Mahal – Pearl Palace, the palace’s main reception hall
Fort with Blue City in the background
Handle of a sword with intricate design
This is a lock and key for the fort’s gates. The lock is about half a metre!
Demo of putting on a turban
Elephants on a sword!
Mehrangarh at night from my rooftop hotel restaurant
Our friend keeping the market square in order
A side street
A stepwell. Dizzyingly steep and not for vertigo sufferers
The Blue City!
Friendly colourful woman I had a laugh with even though we didn’t understand each other
The market square – full of life
The clocktower in the very colourful market square
A view of Mehrangarh from the market square
A view of Mehrangarh with the Blue City in full bloom (bluem😉)
My door at the beautiful Yogi guesthouse, which was apparently used for filming The Darjeeling Limited film
A statue of Jodhpur’s founder pointing to Mehrangarh
Hmm…
Sometimes you’ve got to find space and time to think
The family cow and puppy
Here’s looking at you kid!
What’s going on there?
I’ve never seen this sort of tiny squirrel. Someone I met from Israel said she’s seen only this type of squirrel!
Caught my eye!
Umaid Bhavan Palace
Temples in Mandore Gardens
Inside the Palace
Palace courtyard accessible to public
Jaswant Thada
Colourful women gardening at Jaswant Thada
Jaswant Thada
Inside Palace
Painting by Polish artist inside Palace
Bus back from Mandore Gardens
The Palace from a few kilometres away in Jaswant Thada