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| Hotel
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| Our hotel room.
| Lake
Palace, as seen from our hotel room's window. It's a former residence
of the maharana, now a luxury hotel.
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| Breakfast at Sunrise Restaurant
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I took a picture of Sunrise Restaurant,
where we ate breakfast this day, two days later.
| Aloo parantha: nicely spiced.
| Vegetable pakora: pretty decent. The patties were mostly peas and
onion. The vegetables in this dish, like most other renditions we saw
in India, were mashed together. In the United States, in contrast, each
pakora is usually a single vegetable (i.e., more in the style of
tempura).
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We also had curd.
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| Jagdish Temple
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| Jagdish Temple.
| Intricate carvings along one side of the temple. View the full-sized
image to truly appreciate the quantity and detail. Try counting the
elephants on the bottom row!
| The carvings go all the way up.
| More carvings on another side.
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| So many carvings!
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| The Streets of Udaipur
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| A view of the foot traffic along one street in Udaipur, flashily
decorated with streamers.
| Outside the Bagore-ki-Haveli Museum, is an 125 year old carriage that
used to be pulled in religious festivals by two elephants.
Incidentally, we didn't go in the museum.
Also, this photo was taken in the evening.
| Without the flash, one can't see the carriage's garish colors. I think
it looks better like this.
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| City Palace and Museum
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| The northern entrance to City Palace.
| The entrance to the main building/museum in the palace.
| The genealogy of a millennium of maharajas.
Some of you can guess why I kept this.
| Lake Palace, as seen from one roof on City Palace.
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| Another view of Lake Palace from elsewhere in the complex.
| A panoramic movie from high in City Palace that shows both City Palace's
main courtyard and Udaipur's skyline.
| N, with J making quite a face!
| N and J. A better version of the previous photo.
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| The rulers seem to have selectively installed stained glass. I like the
effect.
| A glossy, shiny room within the palace. It has so much metal!
I guess this picture counts as a self-portrait as well.
| The room's metal dome.
| I really don't like either the funky-shaped entrance to this room or its
blocky, neon-colored stained glass windows.
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| A lovely tiled peacock. The body looks like it emerges from the wall; I
don't recall if it actually did.
| A panoramic image of three more tiled peacocks (on the first story) and
a row of tiled portraits (on the second story).
| This courtyard appears to be filled with modern art. Really, it's just
table and umbrella stands, though without the tables themselves or any
umbrella fabric. Nonetheless, I like the effect.
| A movie that pans over the whole front of City Palace's main
building/museum.
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| Lunch at Jaiwana Haveli
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A movie that pans to show the view from our seats in Jaiwana Haveli's
rooftop restaurant. If you play it with sound, you get to hear the
music being played.
Sorry the movie pans so quickly--there's a
lot of horizon! (Pause it if you need to in order to see the sights.)
| Chicken biryani (good, with the expected complex mix of spices), raita
(refreshingly tangy), and cucumber salad (fine enough).
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