So we have finally discovered how the 'cow system' works. On the surface it appears that the cows wander randomly around the streets. This, it turns out is not the case. All cows are sacred so everyone looks after them. Each morning, people have the shared responsibilty for feeding the nearest cow 2 chapatis and some grass. If the cows don't belong to them, it doesn't matter. If a cow gets lost, it is taken to a designated 'cow place' where its owner can f...

Day 15, 16 Headed off to Udaipur for the weekend. Very excited as I had read the city was voted 'most beautiful in the world' by Conde Nast readers. Arrived after a five hour journey, driven by Rajinder, our hired driver for the weekend to find a smelly, busy, polluted, run down city, with a dried up old lake, covered in flies and the excrement of every mammal you could possibly think of. Maybe it was Bella readers that actually voted. Our hotel, the Mahendra...