After a guided tour of the hotel we were shown to a beautiful room overlooking the lake. Magic. The Taj is a beautiful old palace built to give the royal family somewhere to go away from the city to spend time relaxing and was so called a pleasure palace. The Royal family still own it and lease it to be run by Taj hotels. The attention to detail is outstanding with beautiful furnishings and every thing managed to perfection. Even down to the gentleman who brings to your room, at around 6 pm every evening, little chocolates to enjoy. Yummy. Certainly going to enjoy our three night here.
On to the little boat the next day to explore. As we still had our driver we went off around the city. First visit were the local gardens where we looked forward to the walk and maybe visit the zoo. Sad to say the walk was the best bit. Gardens are a bit neglected but did have a rose garden to look at through a fence. Zoo was shut due to new buildings going up. Ahh well exercise was much needed. Next off to what they call the “Rope Walk” (cable cars) up to sunset point. Fantastic views across the city and surrounding area. Fun seeing their system of dealing with visitors using a cable car bearing in mind we are experts due to using to them skiing.
Now off to see the other lakes in the area and we let Virendra guide us to a place for lunch. Great choice having a lovely view and nice people. During lunch we had been looking over to a Palace situated on a mountain in the distance so ask driver if we could go there. Off we went up a steep bendy road through forest for 3.5k up to Monsoon palace. This was never finished and is a little run down where they are making starts at renovation but the views from here were spectacular. Looking over miles and miles of rugged hillside dotted with small villages. Well worth the drive.
Returning to the Taj we now said goodbye to Virendra.
Next from the Taj we went on a sunset boat trip taking in the huge wedding venue situated on the lake where various pop stars come to perform. Then back to hotel for musical entertainment and dinner. What a day carnt wait for tomorrow.
New day new Palace 😀😉.
Off to the “City Palace” to explore the Museum. Part of the palace is still lived in by royalty and the museum is a place where they have put a lot of effort in and is now a prime example of of the epic history of the area. Excellent. Hired an audio guide as we find this is best for us as you can creep around at your leisure and not be pushed around in a guided tour. We spent over four hrs in the fascinating place where we had a memorial learning experience. Little crowded but our fault we should have dragged ourselves away from our palace earlier!!!. Off for lunch in the palace grounds to a little place that sold a golden pizza for £100 and a gold coffee for £20. Needless to say we had the basic ones. Had a bit of entertainment as a photographer was taking pics of tourist dressed in full ceremonial dress. Good business by the number he did.
Back to our palace where we went into the 27degree pool for a swim and then onto the roof for afternoon tea (of course with biscuits) and watched huge catfish swimming in the lake.
We were booked into the “Indian Cuisine” restaurant for a complimentary “Tali” so off we went. Now a “Tali” is a large dish with little pots of tasty Indian food. It has a starter and dessert within this dish and is usually accompanied by Naan bread. Well not the one at the Taj Lake Palace. It was five courses including the plate of assorted Indian food (not little pots either). The meal was fantastic the service was excellent and of course the company was first class 😉🌹😍. What a way to end our stay.
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