Aug 8th. Life in Udaipur









 Woke up this morning to the songs of the Hindi. We are on the bank of the lake. On either side of us are 2 Hindi temples. The one on our left is mostly where they pray and give thanks. There people bathing in the lake with all their clothes on. Women are washing clothes on the rocks. You can hear the slapping of the clothes on the rocks. With the music in the background it's surreal. There isn't any soap as far as we can tell being used. Its funny because Wilson and I were commenting on how clean everyone and their clothes are. If you saw where they lived you'd wonder how they could look so polished. The women's saris are so bright clean it's crazy. Now we know why. It was cool waking up to this morning ritual. We went to the city's palace. It is said metal was discovered in the 3500 BC in the middle east. Mostly bronze. Around the late 1300 AD is when the sophistication of the weapons came into play. Pretty amazing. It's interesting there have been no westerners. It's all Indian. Same at the Taj Mahl and in Judipur. We then took our cruise around the lake. They took us to this resort of sorts in the middle where we had a beer and looked at Udaipur from afar. They said it's strictly a wedding venue. Interesting. They perform about 24 weddings every month. Back to the hotel exhausted. Tomorrow yoga in a temple!

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