Trip to Ahmedabad-Udaipur-Mt Abu-22nd Oct-27th Oct Day 4

Trip to Ahmedabad-Udaipur-Mt Abu-22nd Oct-27th Oct 

     Day 4-Haldighati

On the 4^th day we decided to go on a historical tour , the famous Haldighati and Rana Pratap and his stallion , Chetak. Haldighati is around 40 km from Udaipur. Haldighati is famous for the historic Battle of Haldighati, which took place in the year 1576 AD between Rana Pratap Singh, the great Hindu Rajput ruler of Mewar in Rajasthan and Raja Man Singh of Amber, the great general of the Mughal Emperor Akbar. 

This battle is considered as one of the most significant events in the history of the Rajputs, and this battle was also one of the shortest battles in Indian history, which lasted for only 4 hours. Today, the Haldighati pass, in which the battle took place, stands as a tourist spot, with great memoirs of Raja Rana Pratap Singh and his brave horse Chetak. In this battle his horse , Chetak took Rana Pratap  and then breathed his last . The battle's result is considered indecisive or it can be considered as a temporary victory for the Mughals. The battle was "a glorious defeat" for Mewar. Pratap's army was defeated but Pratap organised another attack, known as the Battle of Dewar, in which the Mewar army was victorious. This is what we learnt when we enter the museum built for Rana Pratap. There is an auditorium which takes us through on how the battle was fought. The entire tour will take at least an hour and a half .Post which we strolled around the huge place and sat down for lunch . There is a small man made pond where one can go boating.There is also a memorial built for Chetak. Post lunch we bade goodbye to Udaipur and started our journey towards Mount Abu.

 

 

Mt Abu is some close to 4 hours drive from Haldighati and we left early as the driver was hesitant to drive the vehicle in the hills in the evening. We thought we would reach the place by 5.30- 6 pm but  we actually reached there close to 7.30 -8 pm. The hiils are steep and one needs to drive carefully in the night. Also the driver kind of scared us by saying that few days back because of the rain , there was a landslide and the roads were damaged. We could in between see the damaged roads and in some places there was no railings for safety . But we were gad to reach to the top safely. Our hotel was booked .We checked in and were hungry but as we had only breakfast and bed option decided to go out and have dinner and see a little bit of Mt Abu. The place was not so cold as I had imagined. Maybe because winter had not started. Well we strolled out and our Aunty  , famous by now for shopping anywhere anytime started her work here too. The market closes off early. There is a Tibetian market where one can pick up good stuff. We sat down for dinner and ordered some snacks as we were not so hungry. By the time we finished dinner , it was already around 10 pm. We slowly walked down towards our hotel and our rooms and retired for the night as we had a big list of places to see the next day.