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11/30/05
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Shilpogram // Udaipur // India
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Around Udaipur
I spent the day wandering around Udaipur, in the morning I visited the Jagdish Temple and the Bagore-ki-Haveli. I don’t have much interest in religious temples apart from an architectural standpoint, but the Jagdish Temple was an incredibly impressive design, covered in very delicate and ornate stone carvings depicting everything from scenes of Vishnu to elephants butting heads. I walked …
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Asia,
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Round The World Trip,
Tourism
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11/29/05
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The Monsoon Palace // Udaipur // India
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The Monsoon Palace
If I were to write of everything I have seen and done in this strange and wondrous place I would have to stop traveling now and simply write for months, probably even years, to begin to capture anything. I would, like Proust, have to stop living entirely and just write. Just to capture the beam of light across the narrow …
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Americans,
Asia,
Lakes,
Monsoon Palace,
Palaces,
Proust,
Round The World Trip
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11/28/05
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City Palace // Udaipur // India
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The City Palace
I arrived in Udaipur in the early morning disembarking from the train bleary eyed and just awake enough to walk past the touts into the first hints of urban sprawl and find a rickshaw that I was pretty sure wasn’t looking for a kickback. I told him to head to Lal Ghat which is the area I wanted to stay …
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Topics:
Asia,
Negative Space,
Palaces,
Pigeons,
Round The World Trip