The entrance to a mid-range hotel on the shores of Lake Udaipur is adorned with brightly coloured miniature paintings on its white walls. www.biquge.info Of course, it is indispensable to bring the horseback riding and elephant riding pictures in the palace to copycat. Udaipur This is a not very large hotel by the lake, but very high-grade hotel, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu went in to visit.

I asked about the price of the room, and it sounded a bit staggering: $300,500. It's dollars, not rupees. The gap between the rich and the poor in India is really huge, high-end, and catches up with the international norm, but too many people are still very poor. Front desk of Hotel Udaipur. The garden of the Udaipur Hotel. The garden of the Udaipur Hotel.

A lush white triangular plum tree. The corridor of the Udaipur Hotel. Snow-white colonnades, snow-white walls. The inner courtyard of the Udaipur Hotel. White marble carved door opening, bay window, small pool, wooden loungers. It was quiet inside, and there was not a single guest in sight. Miniature paintings of figures on the white walls of Udaipur, reflected in the green pool water.

Reflection in the Udaipur Pool: The pool is full of white columns. Udaipur → Bundi TrainThis trip is designed to make the next stop in Udaipur is the small town of Bendi. Bundi is located about 250 kilometers northeast of Udaipur, and he should have gone straight to his next stop, Khajuraho.

In such an important tourist city, the railway station is too small, and the railway system of the whole India should be built well, and the railway system of such a large country is very backward, which will directly restrict the economic development of the country.

Udaipur is the starting station, the number of trains is 12964 when you go to it, and the number of this train is 12963, and the number of this carriage is 2. As soon as you look at the airtight windows, you can tell that they are air-conditioned, while the windows of non-air-conditioned cars are not closed, and they are equipped with several horizontal anti-theft iron bars.

The train station boarded smoothly, although it was a sleeper, but the ride was only more than 4 hours, just sit and arrive. After boarding the train at the train station, there was a conductor who took the list and checked the ticket in the carriage, and only checked it once during the whole process. It's still the same: when the air-conditioned sleeper gets into the car, someone gives him a set of bedding: a blanket, a pillow, a thin mattress, a sheet.

There is no fixed conductor in the carriage, no one announces the station, there is no on-board announcement, and it is up to the passengers to decide when and where to get off the train. Bundi is a small city located in the southeast of Rajasthan, India, on the edge of the Thar Desert, and has a history of nearly 1,000 years. In the 12th century, it was occupied by a group of Johan nobles from Ajmer.

And here they established Hadanti, the capital of their small kingdom. Situated in a remote corner of the mountainous area, far from major cities and major transportation routes, Bundi is a rare charming town that still retains the simple appearance and living atmosphere of a hundred years ago. There are lakes and mountains, royal palaces and castles, and an old town full of Brahmin blue houses.

There are also markets, temples, and ancient wells. The main attractions of Bundi are: Bundi Palace, Talagar Castle, Queen's Stepwell, Daba Haikende Stepwell, Lake Setsagar and Sukamahal Palace, Bhimlet Waterfall, etc. The train kept moving in the dark, holding a map of Rajasthan, India, and carefully checking the location at each station, for fear of passing the station.

At this time, it is not possible to use a mobile phone map, if you can use it to locate at that time, it will be more accurate and calm. At 22:40 in the evening, arrive at Bundi station 10 minutes late. Ten minutes late, this is definitely a punctual arrival in India. Amitabha, because the planned arrival time in Bundi is relatively late, the train station is still some distance from the hotel.

I'm really afraid that the train will be delayed and the arrival time of the booked hotel will be too late. Bundi station is very small and about 6 km away from the old town, so I took a tuk tuk 100 to the hotel I booked. This is the hotel that Xueluo and Liu Jingshu booked in Bendy, and it was already 11 p.m. when they arrived.

The boss was still waiting for Xueluo and Liu Jingshu at the service desk without going to rest, and quickly helped Xueluo and Liu Jingshu complete the check-in procedures, and their passports did not need to be registered. Housed in a 1684 building once housed by members of the royal family in Bundi, this small hotel in India is located in the heart of the old city, near Sardar Bazaar, and 300 metres from Bundi Palace.

The nearest bus stop is 15 km away and Bundi train station is 5 km away. The architecture is steeped in the distinctive traditional style and décor of Haveli, with spacious courtyards, quaint living rooms, palatial rooms, and a rooftop restaurant serving Indian and Continental cuisine. Gratis. There is a 24-hour front desk.

The front desk, corridor, living room, guest rooms of the hotel. This hotel is located in the old town of Bundi on the market street, between the two ancient city gate holes in the alley, the entrance space of the hotel is cramped and it is difficult to see the whole picture of the building, the courtyard, arches, corridors, seats, murals and decorations after entering the door, etc., all look antique and classy.

The standard room booked by Xueluo and Liu Jingshu is not large, but the toilet and bathroom are not small, and there is no TV and air conditioning in the house. The room is clean, very tidy, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu have few guests in the hotel when they check in, so it is very quiet. The environment of the rooftop restaurant and the chef's skills are good.

Overall, it is a small hotel with good value for money. The hotel's common living room and the hotel's rooftop restaurant. Arrived in the small city of Bundy in the middle of the night last night and successfully checked in to the booked hotel. Early this morning, I went to the nearby mountain to watch the sunrise, and then visited the Bundy Palace, Talagar Castle, the Queen's Stepwell, and the Grand Stepwell.

There are also two small temples. The night train returns to Udaipur. Bendy Street Bendi gets up in the morning, looks east, and the morning sun is full. There is a weather proverb in Nagada, where the snow falls: "If you don't go out in the morning, you will travel a thousand miles in the evening", which means that if there is an early glow in the morning, the probability of rain during the day is high; if there is a sunset, then the next day is a sunny day.

However, this proverb does not work well in India, don't look at the red morning sunset, the day is still sunny. The morning glow in the sky indicates that the snow falls and Liu Jingshu's trip to Bundy today will be full of harvest. Bendy's teammate Mo Mo was a little unwell, and Xue Luo went to the observation deck alone to watch the sunrise.

Step out of the hotel, walk up the streets of the old town, walk through the old doorway, and walk out of the city alone. At six o'clock in the morning, the streets were still very deserted, a black tuk tuk was quietly parked on the side of the street, a few ownerless sacred cows were wandering in the street, and the occasional motorcycle drove by quickly. The Bundy Lookout is on a hill on the edge of the city, and the snow falls alone through the winding narrow alleys.

Walk around the tall and low houses of the locals in a variety of colours and up the hill. Although a person walks through the city and goes up the mountain, there are few people along the way, but the environment here does not give people a feeling of insecurity at all, although the city is small and old, the standard of living does not look very good, but there is no loud noise, no fights and brawls.

There is no robbery and theft, no harassment of women and bullying of children, and no forced buying and selling, people in small towns will live in harmony with each other, and outsiders can feel a very relaxed social atmosphere. The Bundy Lookout Lookout is located on a hill about 100 meters on the road on the west side of the old town.

There is a small pavilion at the top of the hill, where you can stand and have a 360-degree panoramic view of Bundi. A thatched path leads the snow up the mountain, and there is no one around, not afraid of bad people here, but afraid of wild monkeys suddenly coming out. Walk past the ancient city walls that lie quietly on the hillside.

The walls of the city walls have been painted with a golden cloak in the morning light, and the fish-scale walls seem to be dressed in armor. The ancient city walls are coiled around the verdant hillsides like a chain. High in the distance, there was a small flag fluttering in the morning breeze on the battlements. There was no one, not a single figure, and it was very quiet all around, except for the sound of his own breath as he climbed the mountain.

Standing in the small pavilion at the top of the mountain, the morning sun just drilled out of the eastern clouds, and the glow was projected head-on, turning the platform under his feet with a warm golden color, and forming striped shadows behind the pillars in front of him. Look at the old stone pillars of this root, is it a bit of the taste of ancient Greek temples, vicissitudes and magnificence coexist.

In fact, the pavilion is not so big, this is the effect of the splicing, flattening a circle of columns in front of you. The small town of Bendi bathed in the golden morning glow. Unlike Agra and Jaiselmer, the sound of chanting from loudspeakers is not heard throughout the city in the morning. I can't hear the roosters crowing either, and the people here don't seem to like chickens.

Stray dogs and sacred cows appeared on the streets. The mountain bag at the foot seems to be the watershed of the old town of Bundi New Town. The old city is mainly located in the northeast of the city walls, and the area outside the city walls is an extension of the old city to the south plains. As far as the eye can see, this direction is flat, and large areas of low houses are paved into the distance.

The railway station is 5 km away in this direction on the outskirts of the city. The inner side of the city wall, that is, the old city northeast of Bundi, is the rolling hills, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the core building is the earthy yellow building complex built against the hillside - Bundi Palace.

The pond below the palace and the palace-shaped building on one side were the summer residences of the earth lords. This is the junction of the palace castle and the old town, and the hotel where Xueluo and Liu Jingshu stayed is not far from the right. From here, it is clear that the palace is located on the mountainside, and the tall and stocky walls are indeed a castle closed by snowfall.

On the top of the hill above the royal palace, there is also a small castle, which is the Talagar Castle. After descending the mountain back to the hotel, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu will visit the two castles. The small artificial lake below the palace can also be said to be a large pool. The lake is square in shape, with a small white pavilion in the center, which plays a role in increasing spirituality.

The small lake, together with the yellow building on the side, is the palace of the king of the earth domain, also known as the summer palace. This golden building is the summer palace next to the small lake. Far from the war-torn years, the royal palace on the hillside has lost its value of residence, and the descendants of the former Tuvassal King, the current Prince of Bundi, and his relatives have moved to live in the palace at the bottom of the mountain.

Like many of Rajasthan's old royal palaces, Bundi Palace has now been transformed into an attraction open to visitors for a fee, with revenue used to supplement the lives of members of the royal family. I don't know if the visitors have noticed, but the color of the houses in the old city of Bundi is also mainly blue, and its blue landscape is directly catching up with the blue city of Jodhpur.

Bendy is also a "blue city". A beautiful little blue town. The small blue town is also dotted with cottages of other colors. The house in the middle is very yellow and stunning, and it looks like a small palace. The houses in this area are more colorful, in addition to blue, there are yellow, green, pink, white, like pieces of colorful building block puzzles.

The town is really loving. The old city dwellings are also interspersed with several high-walled golden palace-like buildings, which may have been the private residences of the royal family. Head down the hill back to your hotel. The town has woken up in the morning light. Walk through the narrow alleys of Bendi's Old Town.

There are many small temples in the streets and alleys of the old city, and there is a typical Indian temple in front of you. A place of worship. There are horses standing on it, a statue of a god on the left and a statue on the left, Hanuman on the left, and a half-man and half-woman on the right. This streetside deity is enshrined in a simple appearance, and its whole body is painted silver, and the image looks like an elephant.

Let the snow fall remind of Ganesha. Maybe not, maybe it is. The relief carving on the temple tower has been mottled for a long time, but the shape carved on it is still faintly recognizable. Street food sellers. It's the fried dough again. Man sitting on the side of the street doing nothing. A large stone elephant standing high on the side of the street is very eye-catching.

Graffiti on the entrance stairs of a small inn. After returning to the hotel, I went to the rooftop restaurant with my teammates for breakfast, a typical Western breakfast: toast slices + butter jam, fried eggs, coffee and black tea. After breakfast, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu went to the first attraction planned for the day - to visit.

Xueluo and Liu Jingshu lived very close to there, and it took about a quarter of an hour to walk up. Nestled on a hillside on the north side of the old city of Bundi, it was built in the early 17th century by the Johan nobles, a small ethnic group of Rajasthan's Rajputs, and is three or four hundred years old. It was originally a very elaborate palace.

However, due to the fact that the royal family has long ceased to live here, and it has fallen into disrepair, it looks a little dilapidated. However, the large number of old frescoes that have survived in this royal palace are hundreds of years old, and it can be said that they are among the best in the whole of Rajasthan's royal palace, and they are undoubtedly the treasures and values of this royal palace. Thankfully.

These old murals have begun to be valued and preserved by the local community. The castle of the Gate King Palace stands out on the opposite hillside. The castle is large in size and cascades from the base of the mountain. The walls surrounding it are far from sturdy compared to other castles that have been visited, but the castle itself is very tall and steep, making the whole building look very majestic.

Historically, there were many Rajput vassal states in the Rajasthan region, and each vassal king occupied a piece of territory and established himself as king, but the area he ruled was not very large, just like the county size of Xueluo and Liu Jingshu. Although the area of the rule is not very large, they all have the ability to build a very strong palace castle for themselves, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The culture of ancient castles has become an important tourist resource and feature of Rajasthan. From this point of view, you can roughly see the architectural structure and hierarchy of Bundi Castle. Go up the ramp at the bottom of the left and flip up in a zigzag shape to the entrance to the palace - the ramp in the middle of the photo of the Elephant Gate.