Udaipur

After some refreshing days in the city with the (mostly) empty lakes, I'll leave tonight for Diu. But first let me talk of Udaipur.




My hotel (Lakeshore and some water buffalos in the plant covered lake. You can see on the walls how high the water used to be.




The famous lake palace, now a 4-star hotel.




Main actress of a TV show being filmed at the lake today.



View from my hotel, on the right the huge City Palace, at sunset.



Jules, a captain from Gibraltar, who is going to move to his girlfriend in Switzerland soon, and me, still wet from bathing in the river with some local kids after a few hours of trekking/climbing/walking down a rocky stream some 40kms out of the city.



The big red TATA truck in which the three of us comfortably hitchhiked back to town.




Jules meditating underneath a very steep passage of the climb. Luckily the water became crystal clear some time later.



Kid jumping into a river in which we were taking a bath during a bicycle ride two days before the climbing. Some guys from local TV were there too, and we got promptly interviewed during swimming and now everybody in town knows us from the news that evening.




Katy (the third in our group) from Sydney, an trapeze/rope artist who traveled with the circus for some time and myself in the river.

After they left for Pushkar I spent some more nice days till I fortunately met Leane from Jaisalmer who convinced me to leave for Diu with her, so I'm gonna board the bus tonight to a formerly Portuguese colony. A small tropical Island, a few hundred kms(16 hrs bus ride) south from here.