No one can imagine visiting Rajasthan in Summer. It happened this year, more specifically Udaipur and Chavand.
Chavand is on the way to Udaipur. I attended wedding in Chavand. Wedding was very beautiful, colourful and lively. You will love their weddings. People were very welcoming, jolly. Though we were guest of one family, everyone from bride's family, groom's family, neighbors and many unknows treated us as there guest too. Our special care was taken time to time. I enjoyed food there. Most of the dishes served had home made Ghee poured on them. Papadi, Daal bati were too yummy. Chaas(Buttermilk), aamras, kalinggad(watermelon) were served throughout in lunch and dinner.
Wedding was at Bride's home. Found many customs similar to Maharashtrian wedding.
Few pics from wedding:
Next day was dedicated for exploring Udaipur. It was bright sunny day. 50°C temp made me insane but still enjoyed roaming in Udaipur. We were heading to City Palace. Road to city palace is through lanes. That small lane was KhauGalli. Sweet shops were loaded with many types of Sweets and were filled with crowd. We also hit one Gulabjamun's thella. Cook was frying Gulabjamun's and then serving them hot. We tasted one, later we started eating them ;) I had never ate so many Gulabjamun's in a day before in life. Hot, soft, delicious Jamun's. Hmmm.. i miss it
Many small small lanes were filled with shops. Colourful clothes, bangles, hand made crafts, glasses, carved cutlery, cushion covers, decorative pieces. Man you must visit Rajasthan again and again.
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| Shopping shopping |
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| Nice Sari..hmmm.. |
Udaipur is famous for its lakes, temples, palaces and gardens. Jotting down few famous sculpture below.
Udaipur City Palace:
Maharana Udai Singh II established his new capital, Udaipur in 1559. He built the small City Palace. Other buildings and structures soon mushroomed around the palace. The palace is made of granite and marble. The palace is surmounted by balconies, towers & cupolas. It is placed near Pichola lake, Monsoon Palace and famous Jagdish Temple.
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| Balconies in City Palace |
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| Pichola Lake |
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| Monsoon Palace |
After entering through the main gate 'Tripolia' you reach 'Hathi Pol'. Here Elephants were parked. Fight between elephant was famous at Maharana's time. The main part of the palace is now preserved as the City Palace Museum. The entrance of museum is called as 'Ganesh Deori' that leads up to the 'Rajya Angan'. Ganesh's statue is placed in palace. After crossing the courtyard you enter into an armory section, that exhibits a vast collection of protective gear, weapons including the lethal fatal two-pronged sword.
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| Tripolia - Three Gate |
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| City Palace |
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| Symbol of Mewar |
Rooms within museum and palace are beautifully decorated with mirrors, tiles and paintings. Some tiles exhibit Mughal Kari and some exhibit Hindu Designs. You will few tiles imported from China, on them God/Goddess are painted with narrow eyes. The Surya Chopar has a huge, ornamental sun-the symbol of mewar dynasty, the origins of which are traced to the sun. The Mor Chowk (Peacock Square) has beautiful mosaics of the peacocks.
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| Hindu Kalakari |
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| Mughal Designs |
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| Surya Chopar |
In backyard huge angan and water fountain is present. Shipa Sheety got wedded here. Guide told us we can also book this for any such special occasion. ( Rent is only few crore )
Guide which we hired was x-security guard. He showed us Palace with passion.
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| Water fountain |
One imported glass is fit onto the palace. Its colour changes as per sun lights fall onto it. When we entered palace its colour was pinkish-maroon and when checked around 5.30 6 o-clock it was turned to yellow.
Jagdish Temple:
This is Lord Vishnu's temple. At entrance two huge elephants are carved. When you enter temple beautiful statue of Garud (Eagle) is present. It is in form of half man and half garud. Vishnu's idol is four armed and made up with black stone. Wall of temple is carved with dancers, elephants, horses
There are many places in Udaipur which you would like to visit, like Fatesagar, Badi, Gulaba, Sajjan Gadh.
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| Rana Pratap Singh |
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| Fatesagar Lake |
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| Udaipur City |
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| Udaipur City |
The white city had many other locations to visit but time... Wish to visit again. I have collected many beautiful memories.
That was fun to read and look at the photos. My mother-in-law goes to Udaipur periodically for weddings.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine eating all the gulab jamun, fresh and hot from the frier... I experienced that in Delhi when I was up there for a friend's wedding and we went to some big market during the week before the wedding. "ok, ek aur... yeah, yeah just one more..."
:) thanks Kevin
ReplyDeleteI had heard of Delhi, lets see when I make it and experience was same like you said, 'ek aur..just one more..and one more' :)