Udaipur Trip: Day1/4

My mom and I have a pact that on new year's eve we're not going to sit at home and watch the fucking award shows in which Salman Khan pretends it's the real new year countdown and instead we'll go on a vacation and celebrate it someplace cool.

This time it was Udaipur. It took us god damn 10 days to figure out where should we go then another 10 days to plan our Udaipur-Jaisalmer trip. Finally, after 20 days of discussion, we agreed upon Udaipur-Jaisalmer 5 day trip but then we didn't get suitable plane tickets to reach Jaisalmer and the discussion of 20 fucking days down the bin!

Finally, it was Udaipur on the New Year's eve! A beautiful life, everything sorted! Right? 

Wrong! 

Didn't get hotel reservations for 1st January so the trip got shifted to 2nd January. 

But that isn't so bad, a trip is a trip if you stop being a dick about it...

5 AM flight from IGI Airport Terminal-2.

Well, Indigo being Indigo, flight got delayed by 1.5 hours...

Still really positive because it's the first week of 2020! A great year ahead of me! Lmao.

The flight departed at 6:45 and had to arrive at Udaipur by 9 AM. So 2 hours later the flight lands and the pilot announces, ladies and gentlemen because of bad weather at Udaipur Airport, we have landed at Ahemdabad instead.

Excuse me? What the fuck? I did not apply for a fucking replacement! 

5 hours inside that bloody tin can and after eating that dry as fuck Poha given to us by the airlines we all got grumpy. What made it worse was a mother taunting her daughter not letting her carry poori sabzi for the trip! Indian moms never fail to amaze us.

Anyways, around 6 hours later we started again, the pilot still didn't sound sure when he took off and if it were to me I would've definitely trusted George Bush with my aeroplane rather than that pilot. If you get this reference then we both know it's true.

Finally around 4:30 PM pilot announced, "Ladies and Gentlemen, we'll attempt landing again".

Now if you're a pilot, I don't care how funny you are, don't ever fucking say that! The people started clapping to encourage him to land and they kept clapping till we landed. For 15 fucking minutes, around 100 over-enthusiastic Indians, who had been holed up inside the aeroplane for more than 8 hours now were clapping and cheering the pilot like anything. 10 minutes more and they would have started doing Garba yaar. Also if this incident wasn't a clear indication to "Thaali Bajao" event during the lockdown, then I don't know what was.

Anyways, got out of the airport around 5 PM and hired an Uber to my hotel. 

Before I let go of the name, I've been to many hotels and resorts in my life and a lot of them have been pretty expensive but this one, the grandeur of the infrastructure is pretty overwhelming. It's the Radisson Blu Hotel and Resort, Udaipur. Right when you enter, you're welcomed with the sight of a really huge and beautiful elephant fountain, and that's exactly what you need after such a long-ass flight.

The Hotel shares the east boundary with the Fateh Sagar Lake which FYI- is the biggest artificial lake in all of Asia but we'll talk about this and how Indians overspend on stuff. There is kind of a terrace near that boundary with glass boundary facing the lake, giving you a beautiful view of the lake. The suits were perfect, and mine faced the lake giving it the perfect view! After entering the room I did what you always should do when you visit a hotel, scanned the room for hidden cameras, quickly hid the coffee and tea packets in my luggage and request for more!

Yep, the former too.

Took us like 30 mins to settle. The way these hotels suddenly heighten my sense of hygiene and make a person like me (who hates bathing), bathe like 2 times a day in peak winters is still a mystery to me. Hey, stuff that eww up your arse! I told you, I'm gonna try every bit to make you uncomfortable!

The day passed by really quick, we went to visit the Fateh Sagar Lake late in the evening. It's a really beautiful wonder! Truly but Rajputs could have used the army more instead of that lake. I can crack this joke cause I'm a Rajput myself and fuck you for laughing!

Anyways, had 2 Aloo parathas in a small dhaba alongside the lake and trust me, food alongside waterbodies hits different. Also, food after 9 hours long flight hits different. Thanks to the whole flight fuckup couldn't visit many places on day 1 so decided on doing something unusual and middle-class. Stuff some more sugar and tea packets. Tour the hotel. 

The former too, yeah.

Dinner time we did something interesting, now because of the lack of Rajasthani Cuisine in the hotel's menu and not cause I'm not rich, we ordered local food from Swiggy. Sev Tamatar ki sabzi and Garlic Tadka Arhar daal with Missi Rotis. That was better than the hotel's food period and also sneaking the food inside the hotel was a lot of fun, 

Got some really pretty clicks with my DSLR that my mom gifted me on my birthday and immediately threatened to sell it when she got to know about my back in Analogue Electronics....

Here are some: 

Radisson Blu Udaipur Palace- January 2nd, 2020

Fateh Sagar Lake- January 2nd, 2020