Merangal Castle ate three meals in a row at the rooftop open-air restaurant, and on the last night I took a panoramic view of the castle. In fact, there are good and bad states in the www.biquge.info of pen & fun & pavilion, and the snow falls in Jodhpur and Udaipur, in fact, they don't take much, and they are not very satisfied. If you've seen the Blue City on camera, you must think you might have gone to a fake Jodhpur.

So if you're going to be here, don't expect too much. Udaipur's entire trip in India Xueluo and Liu Jingshu basically adhered to the principle of long-distance flight, short-distance train, and city ride, but for the 200-kilometer journey from Jodhpur to Udaipur, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu proudly chartered a car.

On the way to Udaipur, you will pass by a Jain temple called the Genakpu Temple, which is also known as the Thousand Pillars Temple. Temple of Thousand PillarsRanakpur Thousand PillarsTemple of Ranakpur Thousand PillarsTemple of Ranakpur Thousand Pillars TempleRanakpurThis temple was built in 1439 and is one of the largest and most important temples of Jainism.

The entire building is intricately carved from white marble, and a total of 1,444 stone pillars with completely different patterns are erected in 29 halls, hence the name of the Thousand Pillars Temple. Every visitor to the Temple of the Thousand Pillars Ranakpur is immediately attracted by the intricately carved pillars from top to bottom as no two of them are the same.

However, there are dozens of domes that are equally stunning, with their intricate patterns and carvings. When I had lunch on the way, there were only the last two cigarettes left from China, and this was the moment that worried me the most every trip, and after that, I could only smoke local cigarettes. However, when Xueluo wrote her travelogue, Xueluo had quit smoking for 43 days, and there should be applause here!

When the car slowly drove into Udaipur, the style of painting in front of me suddenly changed. The white houses are scattered around Lake Pichola and do not have the rich colors of other cities, the streets are much cleaner and more orderly, no longer littered with wild cows, and the sky is a faint blue, no longer obscured by dust and smog.

It is known as the most in-India city in India - the white city of Udaipur. This hotel is an Internet celebrity store in Udaipur, with a cheap price and high value, and people who come to Udaipur will choose it nine times out of ten. Lake Pichula Hotel is right on the shores of Lake Pichula, and the rooms facing the lake have large bay windows and great views.

Cities with water are a lot more flexible, and in the arid land of Rajasthan, Lake Pichola is undoubtedly like a pearl, and Udaipur, which is built on the water, is very romantic. The whole building is white, with sporadic colors as embellishments, such a small and fresh style is rare in India, a country with heavy tastes.

The restaurant on the top of the building serves a good candlelit dinner in the evening, and Xueluo and Liu Jingshu both dine at the hotel. Looking at these photos, I suddenly remembered the circle of friends posted by a friend in Udaipur recently, she said that Udaipur is actually the Dali of India, in fact, it is really almost!

There is an Indian-owned Chinese restaurant on the side of the ramp, but Xueluo and Liu Jingshu didn't try it. When the snow falls and walks along the river bank in a leisurely state, a girl suddenly appears at her feet. She was dressed brightly, lying on the ground with empty eyes, flower petals scattered all around, and a little scary was that her lips were painted blue.

It looks like there is no love. When Xueluo picked up the camera to film her, she suddenly turned to the camera and showed a weird smile. It is difficult to restore the atmosphere at that time, in short, the snow fell at that time, and the chrysanthemum was tight, and I felt a little panicked. Udaipur is not only a romantic city but also a city of art.

This unique artistic temperament may be closely related to the romantic thoughts and uninhibited souls of the Rajput people. It is home to some of the best painters in all of India, producing miniature paintings by exquisite craftsmen. The ancient art of miniature painting, which began with the trimmed patterns of the Quran, is a delicate small painting used to decorate books.

Miniature painting was introduced to India from Persia, forming the local religious style, the Mughal court style, and the Rajput folk style. Different from the Hindu style of strange power and the Mughal court style of Shah Jahan and Ajmanbano, the Rajput folk miniature paintings produced by Udaipur painters are more casual and freehand.

The miniature paintings are finely drawn, the colors are rich and gorgeous, and mineral pigments are mostly used to outline and paint flat, and some painters even grind pearls and sapphires into powder as pigments to paint. The brushes for miniature painting are also very particular, not only the models are compact, but the hair of the brushes is also the hair of specific animals, usually the soft ear hair of calves and fawns.

or the tail hair of cats, muskrats, squirrels, and goats. Draw tiny dots such as pearls, or fine lines such as hair, eyebrows, rain, or even use a brush with only one hair. How detailed is a miniature painting? A painter drew an elephant and gave her his name written on it, and the painting was the size of a fingernail!

According to the painting technique, the quality of the paper, and the pigment, the price of miniature painting varies greatly, ranging from 10 yuan to thousands of yuan or even tens of thousands of yuan. After visiting a number of studios in Udaipur, Xueluo learned how to identify the quality of a miniature painting, and was able to tell whether a painting was expensive or cheap.

Maybe it's because I had a dream of becoming a painter when I was a child, and although my dream didn't come true, Xueluo has always been interested in painting. I bought ukiyo-e in Japan, cowhide carvings in Cambodia, and decided to buy a miniature painting before coming to India. But choosing a painting is the same as choosing a girlfriend, you need an eye.

Some paintings are beautiful but you don't necessarily like them, of course, you also need financial resources, and some paintings you can't put down, but the price is too high to climb. I spent a few hundred yuan to buy a few for my friends, but I never found what I was looking for, until Xueluo met the painter. He has his proudest work in his hands.

Herds of elephants gather under the trees like pilgrims, and this leafy tree is actually a canopy of four peacocks. The only thing in this studio is that the miniature paintings of this studio are different from the glamorous sluts outside, he uses a very special kind of paper, and uses a very peculiar pigment with a golden pink luster.

The painter and owner introduced with a proud face, he is the only one in India who paints such miniature paintings, and there are no other branches. I don't know if it's true, but it's true that such a miniature painting has never been seen anywhere else. So the tsundere brand, the price will naturally not be cute, cut the price for half a day, and finally sold for 800 yuan.

In the 16th century, Rajasthan, which was full of kingdoms and empires, was in the prime of its time, and the vassal kings had a unique vision for the oasis of Lake Pichola and spent a huge amount of money to build it into an important town at the southern gate of Rajasthan.

The city of Udaipur was also named after the vassal kings. To better enjoy the beauty of Lake Pichula, he also built the largest city palace in the whole of Rajasthan on the shores of the lake. The city's royal palaces are all made of granite and marble, and the architectural style is rich in a mix of Rajasthani, Mughal, medieval, European and dragon kingdom architectural art styles.

Fresco of the dome at the entrance to the city palace of the city royal palace. City PalaceCity PalaceThe City Palace, the largest palace in the ornate state of Rajasthan, has many beautiful balconies and towers. The palace complex contains many large and small palaces and gardens. The City Palace has a very beautiful room inside the City Palace, although the walls have been mottled by time.

But this color is like a box. A photo picture above the city palace looks very dignified, but in fact, when Xueluo and Liu Jingshu stepped into this room, the guards were so virtuous, hahaha. The three people who took a group photo of the city palace looked very embarrassed no matter how they looked at it. The guards managed to steal the show from behind. Of course, there is one point that must be complained about in the City Palace, and that is the ticket.

Not only do you need to buy a ticket, but you also need to buy a ticket for a camera, and the price is the same as that of a person, and you need to buy every camera! So you pay double the price for such a beautiful photo! The majestic palace of the city royal palace dominates the whole city, and there are still descendants of the royal family living in it today. Part of the palace was converted into a museum and a luxury hotel.

In the evening, the snow falls on the shores of Lake Pichola and prepares to take pictures of the night view of the City Palace. Every evening, the lake is filled with countless huge bats, and the treetops above the trees above the snowfall are filled with bats, and the terrible cries are actually a bit chilling. Since the city palace was shot with a long exposure, there are no flying bats in the picture.

But if you look closely, you can still see the traces of bats flying in the sky. The city palace is even more magnificent when it is lit up. This is a real scene restoration of the city palace, and as soon as the shooting was completed, the security guard of the city palace sternly shouted that it was stopped. This is because the location where the snow fell was actually on the roof of a Hindu temple.

It's too hard to take a picture. Come down and quickly apologize to the big brother and the Hindu gods, and walk up the ramp to the royal palace on the lake, there is a great restaurant, sitting in the dining room can overlook the water palace in the middle of Lake Pichola and the city palace in the distance. Udaipur attracts Xueluo and Liu Jingshu not because it is the Dali of India, but most importantly because of a hotel.

If it weren't for this hotel, maybe Xueluo and Liu Jingshu wouldn't have chosen to come to Udaipur. Many people have a bad impression of India, but they don't know that India has many of the world's top luxury hotels. There are a number of great hotels in Udaipur, converted from water palaces, as part of the city palace, with excellent lake views.

The words in the name of each hotel flaunt the temperament of their own aristocracy. And the hotel expert Miss Ye Yilan has such a description in the book "Pleasure Hotel": when she stood in the city palace across the lake and looked into the distance, the local guide in the city palace pointed and said in a tone of infinite fascination.

No. 1 among the top hotels in the world! That's why Xueluo and Liu Jingshu chose this hotel! The most romantic way to get to the hotel is by boat, followed by the hotel's BMW 7 Series shuttle service. Considering that it is not easy to move bricks and it is difficult to make money, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu came to the hotel in a tuk tuk by themselves.

The closed door and the gun-wielding doorman blocked Xueluo and Liu Jingshu from the hotel, which was really embarrassing with a capital and bold letter! The doorman may have never seen a guest who came to check in in a tukka. After carefully checking the order and identity information, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu were allowed to enter and take the battery car to the hotel.

There are about ten minutes from the hotel gate to the hotel lobby, after all, the 300-acre hotel can squander the space. The way the Oberoi Hotel greets guests by scattering rose petals from the sky through the garden at the entrance to the lobby is a real pleasing to guests. This is the hotel's restaurant.

In the evening, you can have a candlelit dinner outdoors, and there are local artists performing with local instruments, and the music has an ancient and mysterious feel, which is very good. The taste of the restaurant is also very good, although Xueluo and Liu Jingshu simply ordered rice, noodles, snacks and drinks, but the chef still came to the table to ask for feelings and opinions on the food, which is enough to show that the hotel attaches great importance to guests.

Of course, the consumption of hotel restaurants is not cheap, and a staple food and a drink are 300+ per person. The hotel has a total of 87 villa rooms with a personal butler service who will guide guests to their rooms after check-in.

Because the hotel is so big, it was almost difficult to find your own room the first time without a housekeeper to lead the way. The hotel has two Indian-style outdoor heated swimming pools, and this pool tucked away in the garden facing Lake Pichola has been awarded the top 10 most beautiful pools in the world!

But there seems to be something strange about the wrong brother's sex! From the exquisite handmade carpets, the hotel reveals the atmosphere of low-key luxury, which is by no means comparable to that of a modern luxury hotel. The rooms are very large in size and decorated with a lot of artwork. The room has modern facilities such as mobile phone audio, wireless network, and audio-visual on-demand equipment.

The chandeliers and furniture in the room reveal a classical atmosphere. This wide bay window is a traditional Rajasthani architectural style, and it is very practical and comfortable for guests to lie down and read and rest. Several of the hotels in Rajasthan have this design, and this is also a favorite area. Opposite the sink is the dresser.

It's a very user-friendly design that makes you feel comfortable at home. The bath amenities used in the hotel are from India's top essential oil skincare brands. It is a top health care brand originating from the Himalayas, inheriting the classic formula of Indian Ayvedic and is currently used by hotel groups and hotels.

The toiletries are very easy to use, although the packaging of the customized version of the hotel looks a little cheap, but in fact, the packaging design of this brand is very good-looking. When they went to Mumbai, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu also bought some skin care products as souvenirs for friends. At the rear of the villa is a large garden where guests can take a walk.