The Great MahaRana Pratap
First of all a moments silence to the sad demise of my ipod............................................
First of all a moments silence to the sad demise of my ipod............................................
A family holiday then, landed me up at Udaipur,another first of all...not the best place for a family holiday..a place though for couples to go gaga..but not so much to see as a family unless you are permitted to photograph the City palace..which is absolutely fantastic.
Well the whole story is pretty screwed up..flight got cancelled due to delhi fog..took an innova for 700 kms and landed up at Udaipur.We headed off to Mt Abu but more about that later.
We moved into the Ram Pratap palace once we came back to Udaipur.
Hotel Ram Pratap Palace
A pretty heritage hotel with a really pretty restaurant right beside the FatehSagar Lake.
The next morning we went straight to the City Palace
The next morning we went straight to the City Palace
City Palace Udaipur
A location for numerous film shoots and the visits of several high profile guests,this palace is the biggest in Rajasthan.No more facts and figures,you can look those up at wiki.
A location for numerous film shoots and the visits of several high profile guests,this palace is the biggest in Rajasthan.No more facts and figures,you can look those up at wiki.
What I loved about this palace were the amazing windows and murals that were spread across the length and breadth of the walls.The shots that I got in just about an hour that I had( because our guide was giving us disgusting looks when we stopped to take pictures),do not seem to do justice to the beauty of all that there was to see.
The doli above and the angan were too picturous to be left.The angan has been put in monochrome to do justice to its eleganance that unknowingly was beeing spoilt by colour,atleast to my eye.
Perhaps one of the most photographed doors or window if you may,at the palace with its reds so very obvious that even I with my colour impairment could not miss out.The seating place of the maharaja for the diwan e aam if I remember correctly
Below: Shots of the resting rooms of the Maharaja.
Below:Views of the entire Udaipur can be seen from here,and also of the famed Lake Palace.Incidentally Udaipur is called the white city,Jaipur the pink,Jodhpur the blue and Jaisalmer the golden.
Above: A few of the murals I wrote about earlier.
Below:Pictures of the famed Sheesh Mahal with almost everything made of glass.Makes for a great picture for appreciators of colour.
Below: Some images of different parts of the palace.
After that we visited a couple of gardens like sahelion ki barhi with pretty fountains but thats about it.
Thats more or less that you can see when you have to travel in a car all over .But perhaps when you're on your own it might turn out better,but none the less, the City palace is definitely worth paying attention to and can be a masterpiece in a photographers work if he/she has the time to spend.Stuff about Mt Abu will be next up.
