Jodhpur is blue city. Difficult to see why at first until you get up to the fort high above the city. The brahmin (upper caste) were originally allowed to paint their houses blue, so now everyone wants to - and you look down on a sea of blue and white.
Udaipur is white city. I think because the big lake palace (it's a palace in the middle of the lake...) is strikingly white. There's a city palace too - which isn't. (see photo). My favourite of the three I think. The scale is manageable, the setting (lake) is fabulous, and it just looks the sort of place you could hang out happily for a week or two.
Jaipur is pink city. Its walls are deep pink. It's a huge place - 3.5m people - originally one of the first planned cities in Asia (early 1700's), but now filled to capacity inside the city walls and sprawling out for kms beyond.
Mad cycling to be had in all of them.
Udaipur is white city. I think because the big lake palace (it's a palace in the middle of the lake...) is strikingly white. There's a city palace too - which isn't. (see photo). My favourite of the three I think. The scale is manageable, the setting (lake) is fabulous, and it just looks the sort of place you could hang out happily for a week or two.
Jaipur is pink city. Its walls are deep pink. It's a huge place - 3.5m people - originally one of the first planned cities in Asia (early 1700's), but now filled to capacity inside the city walls and sprawling out for kms beyond.
Mad cycling to be had in all of them.
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