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Pictures from my two day trip to Udaipur and Jodhpur


Udaipur was a pleasant surprise, a green, lake dotted city in the midst of dry Rajasthan. Steeped in history and romance. A local informed that the most love marriages in Rajasthan happen in this city, not for nothing is it called the Venice of the East.

Jodhpur was very diferent - conforms more to our idea of Rajasthan, huge tracts of land without much green cover, fearsome looking rocks and hills, hardworking, ruddy people and traditions steeped in history still being followed.

The highlight of the trip was a visit to the Jodhpur Shastri Nagar Police station where we were hauled off for quarrelling with an autowallah over his charging us extra.






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Anonymous said…
if you could have elaborated it a bit more, maybe some travel mag cud hav bought it. u write travelogues well. Y on earth did u choose client servicing? copywriting cud hv been a cakewalk for you. never showed this kinda talent b4, else i wud hav bounced off my work(s) on you. shit.
8:40 pm, June 20, 2006
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