Chittorgarh was quite beautiful – a citadel that is in ruins now but it contains all these stories about romance and chilvary- but there are way too many wars with way too many people over way too long of a period of time for me to remember. We had a guide who talked incessantly in an accent that I could not understand and then we went to a light and sound show at the end of the tour to hear all about the history of the place, as if our guide hadn't told us enough. The lights were beautiful, but you know they try to tell you the history of the place over a loud speaker while they flash different colored lights all over the buildings. (i'm sure Disney would do it better). At some point, as you are sitting there out in the open night air, you realize that you have no idea what this woman (narrating the story in different voices over a speaker system)is talking about; you don’t even know what king, shoot, what century you are in in this 60 minute presentation. It is 7 pm, you got up at 5 a.m. so that you could see the tail of a tiger retreat into the deep woods where no jeep can go – let’s face it , at this point in the evening, you are basically hallucinating. So I loved walking around the ruins and going into the temples - ruins can be so peaceful- but don’t ask me to recite the romantic story of some king who saw some princess in the mirror and then fell in love with her.
This is so funny!
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