Hi! long time no see...as if anybody reads it!
What have I been upto all this time?? hmm....travelled around a bit, watched movies (some real classics...well a new section on movies is on its way..stay tuned!), catching on my reading and guess what killed time!
Went to Udaipur-Mount Abu in Feb'2008 alongwith Kalia, Tushar and Satnam. Well that's another matter that we left delhi to attend Ajit's brothers' marriage in Chittorgarh and never showed up there. I won't apologize to Ajit for this..why? for starter..he never gave us the address and his phone was not reachable all the time..thanx to the seamless connectivity offered by Tata Indciom!! jaasthi talktime, jaasthi SMS..but where the hell is the network man [:-P]...secondly, Udaipur and Mount Abu are nearby and appeared way more interesting!
Took the Mewar Express from Hazrat Nizamuddin station to Udaipur. Let me tell you one think upfront: don't have the misconception that all of rajasthan is desert, Udaipur is on a height surrounded by Aravallis. We all freezed to near death in the sleeper class of MewarExp..(we didn't took blankets)
Udaipur is good in day and great by night..man you have to go to the city palace in dark and enjoy food and drinks at the lake side restaurant inside the premises of the palace.
Places to see: City Palace, Pichola lake, there is another one, Sajjangarh. Sajjangarh is a hill top palace, used to serve as monsoon retreat for the maharajas (but we all concurred that the place was made to serve very earthly desires and cravings of the privileged class!!) You can trek to Sajjangarh through the reserved forest. The terrain is not that difficult to negotiate but, the thorny bushes all around make it exciting. Just to tell you, trekking through the reserved forest is illegal!
Getting to Mount Abu from Udaipur is a major pain. Why? there is tribal area on the way and apparently these tribals are not that friendly and they express their dissent by looting any vehicles passing after sunset..so there is no road transport available after 4PM from either Udaipur or Mount Abu. We left for Mount Abu early next morning (around 4AM). The road is also not that great. Mount Abu is good, but, nothing much to do around, the place is infested with gujju tourists and gujju honeymoon couples. You can trek to Guru Shikhar, the highest point of the Arvalli range. FYI, Aravallis are arguably the oldest system of mountains in the world and it runs from delhi in east to somehwere in gujarat in the west. We rented bikes in Mount Abu, had a good gujarati meal, and were off to guru shikhar. The trek is not that great, but you get a good feeling once on top..well why not, I can atleast say that I've conquered one mountain range in world! Jokes apart, view from the top is great. Nearby there is a observatory, one might ask why an observatory in Mount Abu, because sky remains mostly clear in this part of the world. All in all it was a good trip (total 3 days). We'll made up our mids to return to Udaipur with our better halves, if and when we have them [:-(], no doubt the place is very, very romantic. Mount Abu is also good, more so if you meet a follow like Maangi laal, who is a proper frustoo and bakchod person! will tell you about this chap some other time guy. chlao c'ya, bfn.....
Picasa link to some pics from this trip: -
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/prakhar.sharma/UdaipurMountAbuTrip
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/satnam17/UdaipurTrip?authkey=R-7Vk4k4IZU
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/tagrawal/UdaipurMountAbuTrip
What have I been upto all this time?? hmm....travelled around a bit, watched movies (some real classics...well a new section on movies is on its way..stay tuned!), catching on my reading and guess what killed time!
Went to Udaipur-Mount Abu in Feb'2008 alongwith Kalia, Tushar and Satnam. Well that's another matter that we left delhi to attend Ajit's brothers' marriage in Chittorgarh and never showed up there. I won't apologize to Ajit for this..why? for starter..he never gave us the address and his phone was not reachable all the time..thanx to the seamless connectivity offered by Tata Indciom!! jaasthi talktime, jaasthi SMS..but where the hell is the network man [:-P]...secondly, Udaipur and Mount Abu are nearby and appeared way more interesting!
Took the Mewar Express from Hazrat Nizamuddin station to Udaipur. Let me tell you one think upfront: don't have the misconception that all of rajasthan is desert, Udaipur is on a height surrounded by Aravallis. We all freezed to near death in the sleeper class of MewarExp..(we didn't took blankets)
Udaipur is good in day and great by night..man you have to go to the city palace in dark and enjoy food and drinks at the lake side restaurant inside the premises of the palace.
Places to see: City Palace, Pichola lake, there is another one, Sajjangarh. Sajjangarh is a hill top palace, used to serve as monsoon retreat for the maharajas (but we all concurred that the place was made to serve very earthly desires and cravings of the privileged class!!) You can trek to Sajjangarh through the reserved forest. The terrain is not that difficult to negotiate but, the thorny bushes all around make it exciting. Just to tell you, trekking through the reserved forest is illegal!
Getting to Mount Abu from Udaipur is a major pain. Why? there is tribal area on the way and apparently these tribals are not that friendly and they express their dissent by looting any vehicles passing after sunset..so there is no road transport available after 4PM from either Udaipur or Mount Abu. We left for Mount Abu early next morning (around 4AM). The road is also not that great. Mount Abu is good, but, nothing much to do around, the place is infested with gujju tourists and gujju honeymoon couples. You can trek to Guru Shikhar, the highest point of the Arvalli range. FYI, Aravallis are arguably the oldest system of mountains in the world and it runs from delhi in east to somehwere in gujarat in the west. We rented bikes in Mount Abu, had a good gujarati meal, and were off to guru shikhar. The trek is not that great, but you get a good feeling once on top..well why not, I can atleast say that I've conquered one mountain range in world! Jokes apart, view from the top is great. Nearby there is a observatory, one might ask why an observatory in Mount Abu, because sky remains mostly clear in this part of the world. All in all it was a good trip (total 3 days). We'll made up our mids to return to Udaipur with our better halves, if and when we have them [:-(], no doubt the place is very, very romantic. Mount Abu is also good, more so if you meet a follow like Maangi laal, who is a proper frustoo and bakchod person! will tell you about this chap some other time guy. chlao c'ya, bfn.....
Picasa link to some pics from this trip: -
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/prakhar.sharma/UdaipurMountAbuTrip
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/satnam17/UdaipurTrip?authkey=R-7Vk4k4IZU
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/tagrawal/UdaipurMountAbuTrip
1 comment:
good report !!
i too plan to go to the 2 places...
guru shikhar(highest peak of aravali)
mt abu !!
will write my experience then !!
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