Wherever you walk in Udaipur there are a thousand signs 'Showing Octopussy this evening'. The town seems to live of the fact that James Bond 'Roger Moore' was fimed there back in 1989?
Down by Lake Pichola I met a muscian who was proud to show me his picture in a French magazine, and managed to sell me his CD (to play as background music for the photo exhibition......; a friendly character). As luck would have it, ten minutes later a shopkeeper kindly gave me another CD (free of charge) from a professional local muscian. Could have saved a few rupees, but too late.
Also met a 'brocanteur' who was friendly with the French portrait photographer Roland Michaud, and offered to pass on our exhibition details to him.
In the evening booked the night train from Udapiur to Indore, and whilst waiting for the train saw a flock of some hundred flying bats the size of crows pass overhead in the evening sky.
So Udaipur was very touristique, and was happy to move on as foreign tourists were begining to arrive. Would Mandu be the same?
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