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Getting picked up at the Bombay airport by the hotel...not a bad welcome to the country.
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The narrow streets and narrower cows of Udaipur.
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Udaipur's famous Lake Pichola...dried up after 5 consecutive years of drought. Instead of water there was grass and cows.
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The rest of Lake Pichola. Off in the distance is the fancy Lake Palace Hotel, where part of James Bond: Octopussy was filmed (although in the movie they claimed they were in Dehli!)
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Backside shot of Indian woman.
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Donkeys!
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The dump trucks of India.
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Travelling the crowded and narrow streets of Udaipur in a rickshaw.
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Ricky and I on our way up the (steep) hill to the Monsoon Palace, in Udaipur.
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At a cultural show, watching this woman perform a traditional Rajasthani water dance. The pots on her head are a way of asking the gods for rain.
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More pots = more rain?
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She must want a lot of rain...
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OK this is ridiculous...9 pots!
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The cramped and busy streets of Udaipur.
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The garbage trucks of Jodhpur.
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Sardar Market in Jodhpur, a city we couldn't escape no matter how much we wanted.
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Fabric vendor.
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The clock tower of Sardar Market. This was the only way we could orient ourselves in this busy city.
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Our first camel sighting of the trip! In a few days we'd be riding on of these bad boys.
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It looked like a happy celebration with music marching down the street, but it ended up being some sort of funeral ceremony.
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One of the many thalis (all-you-can-eat platters) we ate...good stuff. That dish is about 2 feet in diameter, by the way.
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Mehrangar, the military palace and fort used in the past by Rajasthan's maharaja (prince, I think?) A great site.
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Ricky, modeling our audio tour equipment, as we tour through the fort.
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In the fort. Each of those circled holes was a spot where a cannonball actually hit the wall many years ago.
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