Udaipur

Today Miss Lane and Miss Chater have had a wonderful tour guide who took them to an amazing Hindu temple that worships Vishnu. The tour guide told them that in front of the god there is a large step. In front of the large step is a half moon. A Hindu is meant to live their lives fully and then go to worship the god to show they are ready for the next stage in their life. This completes the half moon into a full moon. Miss Lane and Miss Chater noticed all the people in the temple today were widows or women who have children living away. They are interested in this and will look into it when they get home. Perhaps Mrs Bhat, you could add your own thoughts about this. Next they went to The City Palace. The palace was beautiful and inside they had the most amazing art work from the C16 onwards. Miss Lane was particularly fascinated to discover that the most intricate pieces were painted using a single squirrel hair!!!!!!! She told the tour guide that her garden at home is full of them. She will never look at squirrels in the same way again. Miss Chater really liked the colourful glass all around the palace including a mosiac peacock. Unfortunately this computer doesn't want to load our wonderful photos, hopefully at our next stop we will be able to load them on to show you.