Oct. 17-20.. Spent most of the day at the imposing City Palace museum, Rajasthan’s largest palace with balconies, towers and cupolas, towering over the lake. Our hotel has a comfortable feel, Escher like stairways with friendly staff, even if we did have to change rooms 3 times in 4 nights with each night improving on the room Uadipur has its usual charm of buildings and monuments, however to just observe the street life is entertaing beyond any movie or TV documentary can impress. A two hr.drive to Kumbalgarth fort, the world’s second longest wall after the Great Wall of China. Also Ranakpur a Jain temple supported by 1444 pillars of white marble, no two alike; I gave up comparing after 3 or 4. The village life seen on the way there and back had timelessness about it, the same scenes as my mothers old faded Kodachrome slides from almost 50 years ago.
Tonight we catch the Mewar Express bound for Bundy, a small village where Kipling moved to write.
Oct.21. We are in the Hadee Rani Guesthouse an Indian house with 3 rooms for rent, the place is 450 yrs old, but lucky for us they have up-graded the plumbing since then. The mother of the family is the cook and it’s the best Indian food yet, all for $12 a night.
Bundi is a truly Indian town, no tourist section but great street scenes.
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