Today, we've been driven around Udaipur after checking out the hotel. We first checked out the city palace. We had a tour guide give us a tour of the two parts of the palace that is open to the public.
We then drove down through the Chirva Gaat (hills) to see this park for the Maharana.
We went to this set deserted temples known as the Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law temples. They were built in 600 A.D., but the Moguls destroyed parts of it during their reign. Both temples are very beautiful template have many initricate designs. We met a man there who gave us a very good tour of the temple and made out all of the figures that were carved on the temple.
We then made our way to the Ek Lingji temple. It was pretty neat to finally see a ceremony. Somewhat inspiring. Unfortunately, I don't know enought about the rituals. We had a guide there who gave us a tour of the temple.
The driver took us to the the vintage car museum that had different vehicles that various maharajas used over the years. But the good thing was that the place was next to a thali restaurant. This was so good and so cheap (Rp 50). I couldn't stop eating.
We went back to the city palace where we saw a crystal exhibit. What a waste of money! It was just a large amount of crystal bought by the maharana in the late 1800's. The maharana died before it was delivered from England.
Apparently, our driver has disappeared. We waited around for 20 minutes. Finally, he came. But it was kinda scary since our stuff was in the car. Since we had some time before we had to get to the airport, our driver took us to a bizarre to try to get us to buy some stuff. Go into a store, you are instantly harrassed. If you say you are just looking, they'll still bother you and show you everything.
On to the airport...
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