Mumbai, India
Introduction to Mumbai Flying from Udaipur to Mumbai, we had to leave our driver of three weeks behind. Such as shame, as he was excellent at his job, and a Continue Reading →
Month: December 2016
The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, Mumbai
In the area surrounding the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, the traffic was gridlocked, and security procedures were thorough, and thus, time consuming. The residual precautions from the 2008 terrorist attacks Continue Reading →
Udaipur, Rajasthan
Narlai to Udaipur On our drive from Narlai to Udaipur, we stopped off at Ranakpur, said to be the most spectacular of the Jain temples. We nearly decided to skip Continue Reading →
Rawla Narlai, Rajasthan
Our drive from Jodhpur to Narlai was a leisurely affair, only 140 kms to the village that was home to only 7,000 people (very small for India!). With the population Continue Reading →
Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Jaisalmer to Jodhpur To mix things up on yet another lengthy drive between the poster cities of Rajasthan, our driver, Anand, took us on a less travelled route via Osian. Continue Reading →
RAAS Hotel, Jodhpur
The first thing we noticed about the RAAS Hotel in Jodhpur was its discretion. On approach, there was no flamboyant heralding of the grandeur behind the very high walls. In Continue Reading →
Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
Bikaner to Jaisalmer Driving from Bikaner to Jaisalmer yielded much the same landscape as our previous journeys through Rajasthan – vast arid spaces, cows, camels, shanties and people living their Continue Reading →
The Gulaal Hotel, Jaisalmer
Children playing in the dusty, unpaved street watched as our car slowly drove past. The cows with swishing tails didn’t even bother to glance our way. Our driver was trying Continue Reading →
Laxmi Niwas Palace, Bikaner
The approach to Laxmi Niwas Palace down the long driveway evoked an Indian Downton Abbey episode of my imagination. The pink stone from Dulmera was the perfect medium with which Continue Reading →
Bikaner, Rajasthan
Fatehpur The town of Fatehpur is part of the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan and is often used as a base to explore the area. As we had chosen the smaller Continue Reading →