Rajasthan as a state has the most colourful cities in all of India. Jaipur is known as the pink city, Udaipur is the white city, Jodhpur is blue, and Jaisalmer is golden hued. Houses in the old days used to have uniform hues, which is what earned these cities colour-coded names. Can you guess which…
Tag: Udaipur
Weekly Photo Challenge: Lines 2
The King who built the main residential City Palace at Udaipur, was a lover of practical jokes. What is seen in the picture is not a mirror image but an actual passage way that leads you to the other end of the room. Quite a lateral thinker, and an amazing illusion I must say!
Shopper’s Paradise
Rajasthan is a shopping paradise for clothes lovers. Although you need to know a bit about quality or else you can get ripped off, needless top say, the colors are too vibrant to ignore!
Let the games begin!
The love for cars that the kings of Udaipur have is not a hidden fact. Apparently, in the good old days, the hood ornament was a representative for what the car was used for. A polo player mounted on a horse meant that the king was on his way for a polo match. Likewise for…
Suryavanshi Maharanas of Udaipur
The Maharanas of Mewar belong to the Suryavanshi or the Solar Dynasty. Along with the Lunar Dynasty, this dynasty is one of the prominent in Hinduism. This makes them a part of the Kshatriya clan or the warriors who worship the Sun as their primary deity. Their logo always shows the tribal as equal since…
Sahelion ki Bari
Saheliyon-ki-Bari (A special garden for the royal Maidens) is more like a fountain garden at Udaipur, Rajasthan. The garden amazes you right from its door. Hidden behind its hinges is a piping system that controls the height of fountains lined for welcoming the queen and her 48 maidens. The fountains turn-off automatically as the gates…
Jag Mandir Palace
Jag Mandir is one of the two natural island palaces found in the Lake Pichola. Constructed by three Maharanas of the Sisodia Rajputs from Mewar kingdom, the “Lake Garden Palace” features the Gul Mahal, an elegant façade which spots four carved elephant, the Garden Courtyard, the Darikhana, the Bara Patharon ka Mahal, the Zenana Mahal…
Snapshots of my World 