It was another quiet day in Udaipur. Yesterday, Anita was so sick that she couldn't eat anything. I ate 2 bananas. Today, Anita is still sick and by late afternoon now, has still not eaten. It will soon be 2 full days without food. I managed to eat a banana pancake and tea this morning and 3 bananas for lunch. Late this afternoon I kept down 2 boiled eggs, some yogurt and some naan with tea. I think I'm on the mend, again. Hopefully, the antibiotics will do their work soon and Anita will start to feel better.
I'm sure our trip to India would have been much different if we hadn't been sick so much. Between jet lag, 3 bouts of Delhi Belly and a sinus infection, there have only been a few days where I've actually felt good in over 3 weeks at this point. Anita has been better but right now she's having a pretty bad bout of Delhi Belly. Hopefully tomorrow and Saturday she'll be well enough to eat and to leave the hotel and see a bit of Udaipur.
After noon today, I felt well enough for a little excursion so I took a walk up to a Hindu temple that we can see from our balcony. Our hotel is very handy to the footbridge from Hanuman Ghat, where we are, across the lake to the main part of the city.
Because the streets are so narrow between the 3 or 4 storey buildings, I walked right past the temple without seeing it. I ended up wandering the back streets where there are no tourists for awhile but it really didn't look a lot different. Eventually, I found my way back and found the temple. There's no way to take a picture of the whole thing from the street.
I did a little more reconnaissance work before heading back to wash my feet and relax on our balcony. We almost always wash our feet after we've been out in the street in flip flops. We're very conscious not to step in feces or sewage water but still there are little splashes from time to time. Bacteria rules India.
We tried to access the internet this afternoon but had no luck. Apparently it's being repaired. We've heard that before. There's supposed to be wifi on each floor but it really only works on the 2nd floor terrace. While we were there trying it, we talked to a young couple from Chile. They're both psychologists and managed to get a month's holidays to tour a few spots in India. They were in the southern beach area of Goa, which they said was really beautiful but unfortunately there's a lot of garbage and pollution there too. Like all other tourists we met, they find travel in India challenging.
From our balcony or from the 2nd floor terrace, especially in the late afternoon, we can see the monkeys doing acrobatics over the rooftops and trees. The monkeys here are the black faced, black bummed ones that are less aggressive than the red face, red bummed ones that we also see from time to time. When they want a drink, they just take the lid off a rooftop cistern and help themselves.
We've included a picture of the contrast between a man washing in the polluted lake and a tourist sitting in a nearby restaurant. There's also a picture of the temple from our room and of the steps up to the temple. There's a picture of the castle in the middle of the lake. In the James Bond film that was shot here, this castle was the home of Octopussy, the name of the female lead. Then there's a picture from the terrace of monkeys on the next building and finally a picture of the restaurant on the roof and the couches where we lounged to watch Octopussy.
Maybe tomorrow we'll tour the city palace.
I'm sure our trip to India would have been much different if we hadn't been sick so much. Between jet lag, 3 bouts of Delhi Belly and a sinus infection, there have only been a few days where I've actually felt good in over 3 weeks at this point. Anita has been better but right now she's having a pretty bad bout of Delhi Belly. Hopefully tomorrow and Saturday she'll be well enough to eat and to leave the hotel and see a bit of Udaipur.
After noon today, I felt well enough for a little excursion so I took a walk up to a Hindu temple that we can see from our balcony. Our hotel is very handy to the footbridge from Hanuman Ghat, where we are, across the lake to the main part of the city.
Because the streets are so narrow between the 3 or 4 storey buildings, I walked right past the temple without seeing it. I ended up wandering the back streets where there are no tourists for awhile but it really didn't look a lot different. Eventually, I found my way back and found the temple. There's no way to take a picture of the whole thing from the street.
I did a little more reconnaissance work before heading back to wash my feet and relax on our balcony. We almost always wash our feet after we've been out in the street in flip flops. We're very conscious not to step in feces or sewage water but still there are little splashes from time to time. Bacteria rules India.
We tried to access the internet this afternoon but had no luck. Apparently it's being repaired. We've heard that before. There's supposed to be wifi on each floor but it really only works on the 2nd floor terrace. While we were there trying it, we talked to a young couple from Chile. They're both psychologists and managed to get a month's holidays to tour a few spots in India. They were in the southern beach area of Goa, which they said was really beautiful but unfortunately there's a lot of garbage and pollution there too. Like all other tourists we met, they find travel in India challenging.
From our balcony or from the 2nd floor terrace, especially in the late afternoon, we can see the monkeys doing acrobatics over the rooftops and trees. The monkeys here are the black faced, black bummed ones that are less aggressive than the red face, red bummed ones that we also see from time to time. When they want a drink, they just take the lid off a rooftop cistern and help themselves.
We've included a picture of the contrast between a man washing in the polluted lake and a tourist sitting in a nearby restaurant. There's also a picture of the temple from our room and of the steps up to the temple. There's a picture of the castle in the middle of the lake. In the James Bond film that was shot here, this castle was the home of Octopussy, the name of the female lead. Then there's a picture from the terrace of monkeys on the next building and finally a picture of the restaurant on the roof and the couches where we lounged to watch Octopussy.
Maybe tomorrow we'll tour the city palace.
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