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| Breakfast at Miwar Haveli
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| Banana porridge, my breakfast at Mewar Haveli's restaurant. Fine
and filling.
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J's french toast was "worse than her mother's."
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N's parantha was fried with oil, despite her instructions to the
contrary.
| Mohan Mandir, an abandoned building in the lake, as seen from the
restaurant's rooftop dining area.
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| Udaipur
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| A street in Udaipur.
| A random shrine we happened to walk past.
| Pack animals.
It only occurred to me now, as I'm captioning this
picture, to wonder about the purpose of carrying dirt and stone.
| We happened along a real printing press in active use! The people
working it seem quite happy. I think the sound of the machine operating
adds atmosphere to the video.
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| Classic Car Museum
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| One of the many classic cars we saw.
| One car's old-fashioned trunk. :)
| A door design not seen anymore.
I think I took this picture
because of something about the running board: a story about what is
stored in the thin metal case hanging from the board. I'm sad I don't
remember it.
| Hand-operated wind-shield wipers.
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| The government called for designs of and prototypes for more
environmentally-friendly rickshaws (i.e., no more horribly polluting
diesel engines). These are some they received.
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| Lunch at Garden Hotel's Restaurant
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A thali meal (many small dishes). Clockwise from upper-left:- kadhi (I think it's fried chickpea flour in a yogurt-based sauce).
- dal (some type of lentils): J said it had a kick. I thought it
was an average dal.
- saag paneer (spinach and cheese): just okay.
- rajma (kidney beans).
- kesan gradi (Rajasthani vegetable dish): we liked it, but don't know
what it was. We think it's a large bean that, when boiled, it shreds. (i.e., it isn't shredded by the cook)
- gobi mattar (cauliflower and peas): okay enough.
- raita (cucumber, in this case shredded, in yogurt, in this case sweetened).
- khman: dry, slightly bitter cake.
- gulab jamun (a ball of milky dough in a sweet syrup): pretty
respectable; better than at most buffets.
| Bettlenuts were offered to us after the meal. They tasted a lot like
India, meaning they tasted of dust and perfume/incense. Eating them was
like walking down the streets. Considering we tried to avoid the dusty,
smelly streets, we didn't like the nuts.
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| Walk Through City Palace to Dock
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| The southern entrance to City Palace.
| Monkeys. (Technically I think they're a type of Old World monkeys
called langurs.)
| I know the monkeys in this picture look out of focus but, if you look at
the full-sized version of this picture, you'll see they're in
focus--they're just very fuzzy creatures.
| Grooming.
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| Young monkeys hang out with their parents.
| A monkey lost in thought.
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| Boat Ride to Jag Mandir
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| Jag Mandir, the old island-palace on Lake Pichola.
| The old buildings on one part of the lake that I attempted to photograph
the previous
night. High in the background is Sajjan Garh (Monsoon Palace).
| A tremendous panoramic vista of Lake Pichola on a very clear day.
| The water side of City Palace. Excellent for the way the
building on the right side of the photograph glows and is reflected in the
water.
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| A small, abandoned, palace (?) building on the lake.
| Some buildings on the shore near City Palace. The tower above them is
the previously photographed
Jagdish Temple.
| Approaching Jag Mandir.
| Elephant statues and flags dot the perimeter.
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| The central courtyard of Jag Mandir.
| A view back across the lake toward both Lake Palace and City Palace.
| A long wall / series of steps ascend a hillside east of Lake Pichola.
Can you imagine needing to climb it?
| The boat we took to Jag Mandir.
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