If you stopped in this wonderful Indian city not for 1-2 days, and at least 3, very much and very much you recommend going to a small town called Ranakpur, located 90 km from Udaipura. Of course, there are also hotels (or hotel?), But ... there is still a bus stop plus a shop with imperfall products in one bottle, wildlife reserve and he, the same temple complex, for which I advise you to go there. And there is nothing more there, in the most direct sense of the word! NOTHING! We ran into themselves, stopping there for the night, so I warn you. The light here only in the dark time of the day, there are no computers, nor the Internet, no banks, no exchangers, nor ... nor ... With food here so fucking, because hard vegetarianism flourishes, we have this veganism, that is, such products like Eggs and Lassi find themselves in this locality outside the law. As you understand, the solid saving of money, since they are not on what to spend. However, there is no way to exchange any opportunity, so I keep you the Lord to be in these parts without a local currency, you will need to go out from here for rupees, and not for dollars.
The best and, perhaps the only way to get here is a car, and better in two end at once. Transport comes here only on occasion. And if you just have a few hours on Bus-Stand, then you will certainly be lucky, although it is not a fact, looking where you need to leave. There is one more option: call the taxi from the nearest city of Udaipura, which is in a hundred kilometers from here, and pay, naturally, two ends. When choosing between renting a car or a taxi order - I sincerely recommend a taxi, and that is why. Having done the way in Udaipur on the jeep, it became clear that in a local bus, a rumble and rattling dops, we would drop the skates: Mountain serpentine will turn inside out even the most persistent body, an incredibly narrow and bumpy road, to the word, the only one in the direction of Udaipur, I would knock us out of the rut and an adequate state for about a day. Be careful - order a taxi, especially since the Hindus knows their roads better than any traveler.
The road to and back will cost you about 1,700 rupees (less than 1000 rubles). On the way about 2 hours one way. The bus, indeed, drives once an hour, as the hotel worker assured us, but ... one, that is, I want to say only one or back. And indeed, no bus will pass past if ... in principle, it will be certified. The fact is that the main road on Udaipur passes away, and only single bass worst into the ranachpur. And this road is really going to accurate on Udaipur, in the sense, this very road has no other branch. So with a good set of circumstances, that is, if the bass wrapped here, he will be guaranteed to reach Udaipura, he will have nowhere to go anymore.
Anyway. Let's talk about light. About the famous Medieval Jain Temple Complex, for example. The Ranachpur Temple Complex - the largest in India, is distinguished by complex architecture and amazing lace trim from white marble. That's a miracle of miracles!
Here you freeze from delight, you are losing and do not know which way to move. 29 halls, some of them are octagonal, 1444 Whiteramor columns decorated with stone lace and carvings, the drawing is not repeated on any of them. Unique vaults and smooth transitions between the halls, the sculptures of the deities and elephants, carved balconies and parapets, between the columns under the ceiling of the dancers and musicians. Along the walls of small altars of the Jains saints. It seems here you can wander the clock, enjoying the magnificence and touching eternity with the fading of the heart. The problem that triggers the time limiter - freezing legs, go to the mramor of barefoot, so that after a while we rush to the sunny sections of the temple, to warm up, because there is no desire to leave such a miracle. Slightly make the feet - and again you begin to make the circles along the magic space. There is no artificial light in the temple, sunlight breaks through the marble lace, and its lighting, believe me, it is enough to enjoy the surrounding beauty and marble luxury. Naturally, we were overlapped access to the central hall, where the most important shrine is - an Adidat's sculpture with four persons. White people, then mean non-Hindi, in such a shrine, the entrance is often ordered (often, but not always), we also encountered such a ban for the first time. An annoying, however, was very large there was a desire to plunge into such a splendor with his head. Secondly apologized to us for a long time, trying to be fed to explain such restrictions for tourists, versioning for tradition, etc.
Other temples of the Ranachpursk complex, of course, are not so ambitious and the greatest, clearly inferior to the scope, lose the size and variety of threads, but are as beautiful and inimitable. On one of them, the first at the entrance, we found figurines of an erotic nature, which, as they say, festess Khajuraho temples. So, the copulation in the sculptural image of India can be easily detected in the ranachpur, if they do not hurry and carefully, step by step, consider the temple exterior, walk through the green area, watch the chipmots and monkeys, which are a large amount.
Of course, if you have a traditional hour of time, like many here, or you do not have a special thrust for architecture and you do not cling to original temple architectural and sculptural solutions, then you can believe me for word. Or, as an option, use my tip, in order to satisfy your curiosity.