Words of wisdom from two veteran Indian travellers now in their 70s. (Spoiler alert—go to the Spice market entry to get the full story.)
While it took 36 pretty painful hours and another night in Delhi (will I ever escape that city?) to get here, we are now in Udaipur!!! Who says we can’t go to Rajasthan!!!I write this as I sit on my private balcony in a renovated—I use the term loosely—haveli, the former palaces of the wealthy class in this part of the world. The Mewar kingdom, of which Udaipur was the last capital, was the last of the Rajas to survive as a separate kingdom and lasted until the Independence of India when it was adjoined as another state of the newly formed country.
There is a feeling of absolute glorious decay that permeates the entire city, which surrounds a lake on which perches two floating island palaces. I can see all of this from either my balcony or the rooftop restaurant of the hotel, where I have passed most of this amazing and restful morning.
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