Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Traveller

Visitors, who are seekers of the unexpected, but when they decide to come to Mewar(Udaipur region),unlike us they straight away book a guided tour.It saves on wasting time looking for transports, entrances and understanding how to get around.
City PalaceUdaipur Palace
                                                       
A place where dignity and royalty are everything. The dignified people of the land live in royalty. At  6 am and shortly after, at a lakeside guesthouse just in time for the sunrise on the lake. This may be a first marvellous picture of elegant palaces, lovely lakes, and landscape beauty this beautiful one of the most romantic cities of the world Udaipuralso known as the several other names like Romantic City, City of Lakes, City of Sunrise, and Venice of East.  The  City Palace the richest palace museum in the entire Rajasthan.city's colourful streets full of atmosphere and where lots of clothes hand made paper painting is a nostalgic and unusual momentother elegant palaces like Lake Palace, Jag Mandir, and Fateh Prakash Palace. Enjoy boat ride in picturesque Pichola Lake.Bagore Ki Haveli is an ancient building that stands on the platform of Gangori Ghat in the vicinity of Pichola Lake. 


The splendid architecture of the mansion boasts of delicate carved work and excellent glass work. In the eighteenth century, Bagore Ki Haveli was built by Amir Chand Badwa, who was the Chief Minister at the Mewar Royal Court in earlier times. When Amar Badwa died, the building came under the possession of Mewar State. The haveli looks marvelous with glowing lights in the night. Bagore Ki Haveli is a perfect place to explore the ancient architecture and life style of the royal family.

Now ,choose the road after Ranakpur  through Arraveli montains which leads to the still standing tall with a huge wall around the Kumbhalgarh fort Haldighati is an important historical site in the context of Rajasthan, India. Actually, Haldighati is a mountain pass in the Aravalli rangeyellow colored soil of the place that gives a sense of turmeric interested in historic battles and heroic deeds of the courageous soldiers, then Haldighati is the perfect place to visit. Haldighati is a significant historical site that has observed the battle of 1576. The battle of Haldighati was a huge combat between Rana Pratap Singh of Mewar and Raja Man Singh of Amber. This ferocious battle created amount of blood shed of the heroic soldiers and the red turned color of sand still speaks of those daring people.Chetak, the heroic mount of Rana Pratap, breathed his last after leaving his master to a safe place.  In the words of Col. James Todd (a British author), Haldighati has been referred as 'Thermopile of Mewar'. 

 Crowning the Aravalli Hills, the fort is not so easily accessible with seven great gates that stand guarding its entrance. Just 6 kms, from the Kumbalgarh Sanctuary.Chittorgarh Fort has received the credit of being the largest fort of India. The massive fort is located on a high hill near the Gambheri River in Chittorgarh .This colossal fort is accessible through seven huge gates (Pols) that are comprised of strong iron spikes and served as a watch tower in earlier times with the visit of Chittorgarh fort wonderful place through a bygone era of Kings and Royalty who were the masters of the Palace.


Roll back the pages of time to an incredible destination   take a safari on horses, camels, elephants or even in jeeps, with the Aravalis - India's oldest mountain range as the backdrop. Feast your eyes on spectacular , or just watch the birds in the wetlands. You can also choose to pamper yourself in the lavish heritage properties. Rajasthan has something for everyone –  one just has to choose an activity appropriate to one's temperament.