Udaipur - Nathdwara - Chhitorgarh
My wife and me planned this pre-Diwali short trip of 6 days and we enjoyed every bit of it. Though later it seemed we should have spent more days but were very happy with the limited time also.
On 1st we took Vande Bharat to Surat; stayed overnight at wife's sister's place and next day on 2nd again took Vande Bharat to Udaipur reaching by noon.
Day 1 - We checked-in at this place called Sajjanpreet Haveli ( found it online and the pics of the rooms were very good and had positive reviews also )
Its in the old city very close to Shri Jagdish Temple. The "Haveli" room was very good but the road to it was not. It was a steep climb and through small lanes. The owner had recently developed it into a homestay. It seemed very new by its fresh paint though it lacked certain basic things.
There is only one common bathroom between 4 rooms on its 1st floor. The bathroom had no mirror - had to use my phone to shave....Only 1 charging point that too miles away, nothing close to the bed. No ceiling fan but had a wall mounted one which was very loud. No clothes hanger also. Only one helper on booking basis - no full time. No possibility of morning tea or coffee - get your own from the market. Good pics and reviews do not justify this place at all.
Anyways we stayed back as we did not want to hop around with all the luggage.
Most of the places are around Jagdish Temple so would recommend stay around the temple and many options are available and that too facing the Pichola lake and in good budget also. If time permits go and check the hotels personally and book it.
Shri Jagdish Temple
Lake Pichola - boating ride
On way to Nathdwara we stopped for lunch at Dhabalogy - and what a place to stop. Authentic food and ambience was indeed worth the lunch break.
Then we proceeded to Eklingji temple - 4 mukh Shiva temple ( 4 faced Shankar temple ). The main temple along with other surround temples are very beautiful and ancient. After taking darshan at the temple we left for Nathdwara reaching at aound 1:30 pm; before time for all the 4 evening darshans of Shreeji. We stayed at Vallabh Darshan hotel.
We were blessed and did all the 4 darshans peacefully without any rush or pushing crowd and also hoping that the next days 4 darshans would also be easy - as it was 1st day of Diwali. Lucky enough and with Shreejis blessings all the 4 morning darshans were also peaceful and were blessed to be standing long enough to our eyes delight and see Shreeji as much as we could.
For food we would highly Vrinda Hotel which is very close to the temple. For breakfast local shops sell tea, poha, fafda-jalebi and khaman dhokla. A good variety for the morning siesta.
Post lunch we left for Shri Savaliya Seth temples. We had informed Jitubhai that we would like to visit all 3 Savaliya Seth temples. The 1st one was near the highway in a small town called ...... It was the smallest temple with big deity. The next one was the "pragat temple" ( where all 3 deities were found ) and the last and the grand one which is very famous and most visited was a grand one. Huge temple with provision for long queues and beautiful lighting. We were lucky to get very good darshan at all the 3 temples peacefully without any queues.
