Charging around the countryside as we have, the artisan haven of Udaipur seems to have gotten left behind... and we have broadband and photos online!
Labelled "The city of Love", Udaipur does possess the odd romantic location or two. Try the Island palace (home of Octopussy in the 1982 James Bond flick with rooms at over $3K per night), Monsoon Palace perched atop a nearby mountain with sweeping panoramas of the city (great spot for sunsets... and dirty monkeys), the lakes, largest palace in India, beautiful miniature paintings and rum induced "crazy henna".
Being the city of love, what better place to gate crash an Indian wedding! Talk about different... Arranged marriage of course, so the "happy couple" have only had one night together to talk and they are plonked in separate thrones on a stage for the night infront of all their family, friends, gate crashing tourists and anyone else who saunters by! Afterwards they do get to get to look forward to the "Golden Night" albiet with their relative stranger of a spouse. Great food and atmosphere for us though, and I got to wear some pimping traditional Rajsthan gears.
The photo is of us and the the bride and groom with the rest of our Intrepid group. Enjoy!
