A look back at Udaipur - pics from a couple of short walks.

These are an assorted group of pics from a couple of days where I just went out for short walks for a couple of hours in the afternoon into the west side of Udaipur and down to the 'clock-tower' and the jewelry area .   I really like the warren of streets in Udaipur -  easy to just get lost wandering in these areas.

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If it isn't scooters parked along the streets, it's cows! 

Often enough, people have greetings painted in the street on the way to their homes.

A lady hanging out on the elevated 'stoop' at the main entrance to her house (often access is via some very narrow steps on the side of the building leading up to the home entrance.)

Typical alley-way in the residential streets.  More often than not, the streets are quite narrow, maybe only wide enough for a scooter to drive down (which makes manoeuvring down them with the addition of wandering cows etc a little tough.)

Some streets get really narrow - squeezing down to a door width often.

A lot of streets have lovely paint jobs, with gorgeous painting and features next to the entrance doors. The paintings are pretty well all Rajput themed, as below.

.....and some paintings are much simpler!

For the cows wandering through the streets people will have containers like this near their front doors, where residents will put leftover food to feed them, or frequently people just dump organic food wastes on the street for them.

Afternoon snooze in a shady spot.

A frequent sight most anywhere around India, dogs crashed out on the top of cars in the shade.  They just jump up onto the vehicle and just settle in.

Lots of little side of building temples/offering places. Quite often they have closing iron frames to protect them, but open at different times of the day.

An older lady sweeping leaves at the front area of a temple, and (below) a close up of her.

After school hanging around in the street.

A flour grinding shop.  People bring in stuff for them to grind up fresh.

A little electronics shop - nice guy, who seems to cover all your photo and electronics needs!

Lady taking care of her shop - just about anything you could use!

Lady sitting in her open 'bicycle' shop - it can be wheeled around if needed. (close up of the same lady below).  She invited me to take her pic. 

Chai shop I stopped in for a quick tea and snack.

Little girl getting water from the communal water pump in the street in a residential block.

Just relaxing in the shade.

Ad for an old wrestling game still popular.

Somewhat strange self-portrait (in a round mirror near the city palace.)