I was rudely awoken this morning by the ladies outside our window beating water from their washing. I'm not sure how clean this method gets their clothes, especially as they use the same part of the lake as everyone bathes in. Anyway the laundry from the hotel came back clean enough, a few t shirts had shrunk although it could be me that's expanded after all the great food we have enjoyed in India so far.
After the pedalo my next favourite form of transport is a horse, we took a short trek out through the villages in the surrounding hills. Interesting to see how people live here and there were plenty of friendly faces waving and shouting hello. The only hazard were the occasional water buffalo, apparently they are quite find of charging horses,
Here in Udaipur they start learning to ride camels early, it must have been this little guys first time on a camel as he wasn't too sure about it. His Farther was though as every photo in India has a price, about 10 rupees (15 pence). We stopped off at an animal hospital, India has so many wild animals in the town many come of worse for wear. The animal hospital had amongst its patients more dogs than I could count, a couple of monkeys and a herd of donkeys and sheep. There are around 50,000 cases of rabies worldwide each year, 50% of those occur in India. An important part of the animal hospitals work is to vaccinate as many animals as possible against rabies, at the same time the male dogs also get the snip.
Above: Us and our trusty steads at the end of the trek. After my backside came back to me we took a trip to the Monsoon palace, high above the city. So called as its where the Maharajah took refuge from the flood waters during monsoon season
Below: A view from the Monsoon Palace over the lake
We once again enjoyed drinks on the roof terrace watching the Sun set over the lake, very relaxing
Highlights: I'm not admitting that I actually quite enjoyed the horse riding.
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