Udaipur, Pushkar, & Jaipur
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I think the last time we wrote anything was from Jodhpur… from there we took the most uncomfortable train ride I’ve ever been on through ever changing scenery (from desert, to vallies, hills, and miles and miles of marble quarries) to Udaipur – the city of the water palaces.
The only problem with Udaipur is that India is suffering a significant drought, so the water palaces are actually field palaces, surrounded by muddy ponds that little children bike across the mud flats to go swimming in, side by side with the water buffalo. If you have supper on a roof-top restaurant at night, you can imagine the palaces are floating in the “lake”, as you look out at it’s floodlit white marble walls.
We did sign up for a thoroughly enjoyable Indian cooking class in Udaipur, and are now better versed in the spices, terminology and techniques of making curries (which are the same as massalas – just a different language for the same word – who knew?)
Summer 2009 Travel Map
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Well here it is, our summer 2009 trip to India, Tibet and Nepal. I plotted most of the places we are traveling to, with a couple of minor exceptions.
