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India 2013 part 2

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Taj Mahal, Agra (from across the river) For a slideshow of my photos scroll to the bottom of this entry (you can click on the slideshow there to open in Picasa for a larger sized view) Road to Udaipur 30 minutes to descend from the mountains and back on to main highways to head to Udaipur. The temperature seems to have warmed up a bit from the previous chill - and that is quite nice. Our route continued for the most part as the drive into Mt Abu. Then we started to head into and through other mountain ranges that rose from the flats that also became more noticeably farmland. Udaipur itself is set nestled into several hills built around three lakes and dominated by the hill containing the massive City Palace. Udaipur After checking into the fort like Ramada Resort we headed out with our driver for our first views of Udaipur.  And then came the central streets… I should actually say alleys as it was unbelievable how our driver was able to get through these streets with