Continued from here
The next morning was super fun as well, tired of partying all night and here we are: we get to do something that most bikers would love to! Ride!
We met up with Claudio and Ludi again, wished them a nice journey ahead and got some wishes as well, exchanged email address and all and then finally I gave away my India road map to Claudio, to help him with his bike trip! Hopefully we will meet sometime next year and ride along with him atleast for some distance! Anup also gave awaya his priced bottle opener to Ludi and we wished each other good bye!
Jodhpur to Udaipur was an adventurous ride, we were bang on the correct road, until some locals suggested us a shorter route used by government busses. Tip: DO NOT BLINDLY TRUST PEOPLE WHO SMOKE POT! Especially when they are smoking pot!
Another Old man, showing us how its done and offering us a puff.... we Politely declined...
The distance was indeed shorter but the road was a crazy one…. Riding through bad (and really bad) roads, passing through a lot of new unknown villages…. The site around started changing, everything around slowly changed from sand to proper rocks (hint, guess where we were)
We went on and on with the riding and then we realised my map could have been handy… but nevertheless Anup had his own map, which comes with a a small 200 pager book to know How to read the map! A lil bit of map reading and a lil bit of GPS reading and we were back on track…
We rode on roads like this 'exploring' the villages of Rajasthan!
We stopped near Shrinathji to have some tea and snacks and there too we were treated as celebrities…Since there are a couple of sights outside Udaipur, we ensured we see them while we ride itself … which was a good choice cause the lake and all were belittled by the sights that we had already seen!
Finally we reached Udaipur, asked some cops about places to stay and settled down in a cheap neat hotel. We had a nice nap and a quick shower, to catch up with all the sleep that we had lost.
Finally went to the Udaipur Palace to see the light and sound show there… Anup should have some pics of these.
My only pic before the Battery died!
Roamed around the market and got some stuff from here as this was our last stop of the revised plan…We even went to see the vintage cars hotel and went there for dinner, but like the cars even the waiters there were vintage showpieces and slow! So after 25 odd minutes of waiting we decided to move to another place. Finally some food and saw something neat there… just like the advertisement that we see in Mumbai at all small stalls that “Idli tastes better with a pepsi” we saw a ad that “Hyderabadi biryani tastes better with a Kingfisher beer”
Lol That was so super funny! We are in North of India, where someone is promoting a South Indian companies beer promoting a Hyderabadi biryani to people coming from Mumbai…. Wow that’s national integrity then and there!
Nest morning one bun warming awesome ride to Mumbai (about 850KMs) We just hope we could wake up in time…..