Moving on to our last stop

The last couple of days have been quite a busy affair, including a change of venue via a domestic plane ride which wasn't originally planned.

Monday saw us decide to do the sights of Jaipur on a half day organised trip, this meant we didn't have any tuttut battles to contend with but brought it's own challenges. In a small jeep mostly full of locals we set off from the government tourism department to take in the main attractions Jaipur has to offer, all good so far, our guide proved interesting as his english wasn't the best and we found ourselves nodding rather actually taking anything he had to say in. Fortunately the tour of the City Palace had an audio guide which was a nice releif, it was again an impressive building in the Pink City but we may now be suffering from tourist attraction fatigue as when we got to Ajmer Fort we didn't even go inside the main palace, just one fort too many.

 There were two food dishes we hadn't yet had, one Dosa's which we'd been told about we managed to have for tea at Sankelps in the main town, I'd compare them with savoury pancakes, nice but fair better when sweet. Our trip back to the hotel that evening was another rollarcoaster tuttut ride, this time our driver knew how to find our hotel which was a bonus, although he took out one motorbike on the way and nearly had a cyclist over. Our last morning in Jaipur was another a nice quiet affair before a friend picked us up to take in some shopping and lunch, which meant we could do the other food dish we'd yet to have, Thali's, a handful of small dishes and desert all on a large platter, yummy!

We'd planned to leave Jaipur in the evening getting the overnight train to Udaipur, the one issue was that our tickets still weren't confirmed, rather oddly we'd been 1 and 2 on the waiting list for the past month. Not wanting to risk not being able to get on the train we cancelled that and booked an afternoon flight.


So now we find ourselves in Udaipur, home of the palace on the lake which featured in Octopussy, more updates to follow over the next few days before heading back to Delhi for the final. Just hoping England can beat Germany in the semi, my hopes aren't high but Germany without the Zellor brothers have looked beatable so we are in with a chance, if only Mantell wasn't injured.