Udaipur - A lovely blend of lakes and ancient palaces

Udaipur is that unique city correctly thought to be similar to Venice, with its intermingling lakes and palaces and ancient temples. The magnificent view of these lakes is only second to the royal grandeur of these famous palaces.

Udaipur remains charmingly unassuming in spite of its ravishing beauty. Her lakes of flowing deep blue is well contrasted with brown sloping hills and green gardens and stern rocky palaces that cover a major part of the city’s sky line. Every year it draws a great many visitors to this popular destination that is termed the Venice of the East.

Located in the western part of India in the Rajasthan state, this city is an exotic blend of palaces that look over the city from their majestic height, five lovely lakes interwoven and studded with delightful little islets and ancient temples that betray the cultural and religious themes of a bygone era.

Indeed this city of lakes as it is rightly called, has five major lakes interconnecting while the rest of the city with its ancient palaces, its garden paths and foliage and lofty hills do make it a dreamland out of a storybook and it is not surprising that it was termed the best city in the world in 2009 by ‘Travel and Leisure’.

Udaipur was also the capital of the former Mewar kingdom. Also termed as the city of dawn, the city has been also acknowledged as one of the most romantic destinations in the world. Indeed where else could one find so much of nature’s ravishing beauty, closely linked to monuments of an ancient era of kingdoms. Amongst the many tourist attractions here, the Lake Palace which has a panoramic view of the city, the Jag Mandir Island in the Lake Pichola where Shaa jahan used to hide following a conflict with his father and the Jagdish temple betraying an Indo-aryan architecture are some splendid places to see during a visit to this fascinating city.

The Leela Palace Kempinski Udaipur is that ideal place to surround yourself in luxuries with rooms and suites exuding a sense of royalty and overlooking glorious view of the Lake Pichola. If a traveller is looking for Business Hotels Udaipur, this again is an excellent choice as there are a great many facilities to conduct meetings and conferences and plenty of room to mix business with pleasure with those pleasing surroundings of the hotel. It’s one Udaipur hotel you will not hesitate to step into and definitely regret to leave at the end of your stay.