After a visit to Jagdish Temple, we headed to City Palace, Udaipur! Udaipur used to be the captial of Mewar. It’s the largest in Rajasthan, and its designs felt over the top and luxurious, and I know we didn’t even see the entire complex!
Jagdish Temple is pretty much right next to one of the major intersections in Udaipur. The temple is also so compact that it was difficult to get any pictures in its entirety, but it was a nice respite to flee from the busy little surrounding streets.
Not far from the temple, was The City Palace. It’s actually right up the street, and after we skipped Jodhpur’s City Palace/Hotel, I was curious to see what this City Palace – THE thing to do in Udaipur- was all about. The fees to get into the City Palace, Udaipur were a little bit outrageous. One of our pet peeves of India are the fees that are always tacked on. The camera fee for The City Palace was almost as much as the fee to get into! Andrew and I decided we were going to take pictures like CRAZY to make up for it, but I won’t bore you with all of them!
The palace was fancy, but very crowded. I think there were a few field trips going on because we would sometimes find a courtyard or a room filling up with middle school-aged boys and Andrew and I would sneak away before it turned into another impromptu photo shoot. (Which are super fun when it’s a handful of children, but very different when it’s an entire school!)
These boys chased us down when we walked out of the palace for a picture. (I have to say I was relieved we managed to get through the entire palace with only ONE photo like this!)
