Today we shove off from Udaipur in the evening and head south to Gujarat. We are going to spend a few days in Gujarat before heading further south to a place called Diu. Diu is a small island just off the coast, which similar to Goa, was a Portuguese colony until it was given back to India after independence.
Unlike Goa, it is supposedly pretty untouched by western tourists and probably a lot more of a backwater. However, after doing sights for a while here in northern India we thought it might be nice to get off the beaten track for a little while and relax a bit before flying from Diu to Bombay to start on southern India.
Also, we are a little interested to see Gujarat. For those not familiar with India, Gujarat is one of the wealthier states in India where there is supposedly a lot of industrial activity. Also, Gujarat has an inordinate number of people living in the US. I read somewhere that 40% of all Indians living in the NYC area are from Gujarat. So a lot of that states culture is what we think of as Indian culture in the US. However, not many tourists go there, so hopefully it will be a little bit of a respite from the usual thirst for the western tourist dollar.
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