Traveling With Itchy Feet » India – Udaipur & Jaipur http://travel.charlesduncanjr.com Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:14:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Hanging in Jaipur http://travel.charlesduncanjr.com/2008/05/14/img_2119/ http://travel.charlesduncanjr.com/2008/05/14/img_2119/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 21:57:27 +0000 sirchauncy http://travel.charlesduncanjr.com/2008/06/22/img_2119/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }

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This picture was taken in Jaipur where the bombs went off about a month later. This a wonderful family we met visiting from London.

 

]]> http://travel.charlesduncanjr.com/2008/05/14/img_2119/feed/ 0 Jaipur & Udiapur – Hey, West Indies and America!!!! http://travel.charlesduncanjr.com/2008/05/14/jaipur-udiapur/ http://travel.charlesduncanjr.com/2008/05/14/jaipur-udiapur/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 08:41:56 +0000 monjames http://travel.charlesduncanjr.com/2008/06/21/jaipur-udiapur/ Do you know last month 6 bombs went off in 15 minutes leaving at least 80 people dead, in Jaipur? Well this happened in the Pink City. And that is exactly where we were one month before it happened. Talk about narrow escape huh!!!??? Anyway this sort of thing, you can’t run or hide from. It was terribly sad to hear about it.

We loved Udaipur. We bought tons of jewelery here and even had some custom made. It was ridiculously cheap.

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 Ajay and his dad, in picture above, made our rings – Udaipur.

We stayed in a small and quaint town at a beautiful hotel right on the famous Lake Pichola. From our hotel grounds we could see The Lake Palace Hotel where Octopussy, the James Bond movie was filmed.

The big joke is that because Octopussy was shot here, practically EVERY restaurant shows Octopussy EVERY Single DAY without fail at 7:30pm. I repeat, Every Single Day at 7:30pm!!!!!! No other movie.

Anyway word spread about us through the town pretty quickly. One day we told some people that I was from the West Indies (for those who do not know, people from the Caribbean are called West Indians because Christopher Columbus thought he had found India…. silly!!!!) and Charles from America. By day two people started calling out to us as we passed – “hey West Indies and America”!!

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