Immersed in the beauty monsoon palace ~ TRAVEL

The palace built of white marble, carved delicate, fussy with typical Indian motifs.
Monsoon Palace, or Sajjan Garh palace in the local language is a magnificent resort located on a hilltop in the city of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, overlooking Lake Pichola. The palace is famous for pure scenery lake, the tall buildings, fancy and countryside surrounding landscape.

The palace was built in the Mewar (1874 - 1884), under the reign of the king of Mewar. The architect monsoon palace with the idea of ​​creating a place to watch the clouds covered the sky when flock to Indian monsoon.

The palace was built in white marble, sits atop a hill Bansdara of Aravalli, elevation 944 meters above sea level, overlooking the lake Pichola pure, smooth. In addition to the purpose of cloud watching station, there is a palace-style "resort" of members of the royal hunting season.

Each tower has a palace on top observatory. Both palaces surrounding a large courtyard in the center, with stairs leading to the entrance hall and various rooms. Every major pillar marble was carved with elaborate floral and leaf motifs, typical Indian culture.

At night, the palace will look bright lighting in the chapel, fountain inside, giving a monsoon palace beauty shimmering wonderland.

Today, the palace is located on the campus of the Indian national park, where owning a flora and fauna are abundant. Come to the palace, visitors can admire not only an architectural masterpiece royal that can participate in the tour elephant, tiger hunting in the woods or simply sightseeing stroll around the peaceful village region.

    

Monsoon Palace is known world after the film became famous for the film Octopussy, part of his series of handsome spy James Bond. In the movie palace is considered the abode of an Afghan prince and a girl with the mysterious nickname: Octopussy (small octopus). Unique architecture, meticulous, is one of the landmarks in the film. All made monsoon palace became one of the most favorite destinations of tourists to this country.