Day 20: Imperial Splendour

Back to reality (of a sort) today - we've left rural Rajasthan and are back in Delhi, staying at The Imperial, which is a very gentle return to earth prior to our departure tomorrow. That said, even in the finest hotel in the capital city we still managed a power cut this evening. Funniest moment of the day was arriving back in Delhi to find Madhav waiting to pick us up and grinning like a Cheshire cat. We left him at Udaipur with an envelope stuffed with Rs 500 notes, which may explain why he's so pleased to see us. (Quick rant on plane travel - why does a one hour flight between two hotels, each of which are 45 minutes from their respective airports, take a total of seven hours out of the day? This is how we spent most of the day: )