I forgot to mention that there was a lovely lakeside restaurant across from our hotel. We enjoyed lunch and starlit dinners there and had fun watching the groups of young Indian diners - lots of animated conversations with almost as many hand gestures as Italians use. A road rims the lake so we could follow the car lights as they snaked around the shore. We could also see lights zig zaging up to a temple on a hill next to the lake. Like many temples the hill top location provides visual prominence as well as a means of showing devotion - worshipers have to climb 750 steep steps to get up to the temple.
Our hotel facade was much in the style of the carved marble palaces.
At the Palace museum they were in the process of setting up for a catered wedding there. Weddings are huge her, both in number of guests and in social importance. When I asked how much it would cost to have a wedding here in the palace our guide gave some astronomical number like a billion rupees, but who knows?
On our boat trip we could see women doing laundry on some of the ghats (steps) that line the lake. They basically beat the crap out of the clothes on the rock steps. Since we had just given a bag of laundry to be cleaned that morning we were especially amused by the thought that those were our clothes being beaten to death.
At 5:30 Siddu was outside waiting to take us to the airport, as chipper as ever.
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