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…Whilst, we, lowly commoners can dream on!

Palaces In India That Look Too Magical To Be Real They don’t call it “Incredible India” for nothing.  Aug. 26, 2015, at 10:06 p.m. Meghan Koushik BuzzFeed Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur Via  Flickr: veeds Completed in 1943, Umaid Bhawan was commissioned by Maharaja Umaid Singh of Jodhpur in 1929 during one of the longest droughts in the state, as a way of generating employment in his kingdom. Today, the royal family still inhabits a majority of the palace grounds, but part of the palace has been turned into a luxury hotel so you too can  experience the royal life , starting at just $450 a night. cropped and saturated from original / Via  Flickr: thessilian Jal Mahal, Jaipur saturated from original / Via  Flickr: saturnism Jal Mahal was originally built in 1734 as a hunting lodge and today is only  accessible by boat . The palace actually extends four stories below the lake surface, and stays dry thanks to a specially-conciev...