Arriving at Udaipur, it was clear that we’d travelled a lot further north. It’s not cold, but it’s certainly cooler than it has been – and we even felt a drop of rain as we stepped off the train. It’s about 18 degrees now (at 23:00) but is forecast to be 27 tomorrow, so when I say cooler it’s all relative to the 30+ degrees we’ve had in Mumbai.

The train station was about 7km from our hotel, which is in an old palace on the shore of lake Pichola. As our hotel is in the old town, the roads are too narrow for taxis, so there was only one thing for it – a tuk tuk. There were plenty to choose from at the station so we were soon loaded up and on our way for another death defying journeys.

We’ve had a few tuk tuk rides in India now – in Mysuru and Mumbai, and quite frankly they are mad. It’s like riding in an open sided Robin Reliant three wheeler with no seat belts and most of the drivers behaving as though they have an urgent death wish! Fortunately we navigated the narrow streets of the old town and got to our hotel safely, I recorded part of our journey for posterity.