More photos of the temple & lunch

The temple is huge! It is a grand white marble structure spread over 48,000 square feet (4,500 m2) with 1444 marble pillars, twenty-nine halls, eighty domes and 426 columns. The pillars are individually carved and no two pillars are the same. The temple is famous for its beautiful carved idol of Parshvanatha made out of a single marble slab. The idol has 1008 snake heads and numerous tails. I'm sure my audio guide would have told me a lot more information, but to be honest, I didn't listen to find out. The place was crawling with tourists, and I just wanted to escape! I took some photos and returned to the car!

Not much further on, we stopped for lunch. It was clearly the place everyone who has booked a transfer between Udaipur and Jodphur stops at. I had a very ordinary chicken curry with jeera rice and a roti. There wasn't much chicken, and what there was, was tough. It was expensive, too!Læs mere