Next morning we had to bus to Udaipur because there were no train tracks from our direction. Udaipur is probably the most well known, after the Taj Mahal, of all the palaces. It is the one in the center of the lake. Trouble is they have had a few years of bad monsoon and the lake was 90% dry L.

That’s the summer palace right out in the middle of the paddock. On the right is one taken from the shallow muddy water they have managed to pump into one side so you can take a boat across rather than just walk the 200 meters.

We had a wonderful lunch there, and then toured the regular palace which was just behind the position where the photo was taken in the boat. Here are a few photo’s showing first the family tree (which was unbroken for all those generations – but there were a few cousins invited when the guys could not manage to produce a male heir!!!)