Udaipur, western IndiaRajputana is mainly the present-day Rajasthan in India.Halliburton makes mention of celebrations in the places he visits —“they must have a holiday every week in this town.” Learn about the different celebrations that are observed in Rajasthan.In western India, in the state of Rajputana, we come to the town of Udaipur, and find the land that has stepped straight from the pages of a fairy tale. It bursts upon us all at once, across a blue tropical lake. On the far shore we see tier on tier of fairy palaces—blue palaces, pink palaces, white palaces. They seem to be made not of bricks and stone, but of music and romance and rainbows. (CC BY-SA 4.0 ©2017 Vishal0soni) Streets of Udaipur. (CC BY-SA 2.0 ©2011 tjollans) Udaipur, palace at night. (CC BY 2.0 ©2012 Kandukuru Nagarjun) Girl in Rajasthani folk dancing attire. (CC BY 2.0 ©2012 Arian Zwegers)
