Udaipur

The city of Udaipur, located in the south of Rajastan, is famous for its lake and floating palace which formed the backdrop to the Bond film Octopusy. To this day whenever you walk round the streets of the city at every corner you see signs advertising the film being shown like its some advertising campaign for the city.

The place itself is really rather pleasant which means you could quite easily stay here for days on end without really getting bored or feeling the need to move on. Many of the hotels have restaurants which overlook the lake providing some truly outstanding views, especially around sunset. The streets are densely packed crawling with people and animals mostly cows.

Myself and Tito decided one evening to head up to the main temple on a hill overlooking the valley. The views were pretty damn impressive as the lake providing a glimpse of the huge size of the lake. Whilst we were up there Tito and an Australian girl we had been hanging out with got approached by the normal Indians hassling them for either sex (in the girls case) or drugs (in Tito's case). I'm getting to the stage now were I pretty much have a policy of not talking to these kind of people in tourist places. Elsewhere I love meeting Indians but not around tourist destinations as they inevitably lead to them either wanting something or to sell you something.