Category Archives: India

I won’t lie, I woke up quite excited this morning as we had tickets for the IPL game between Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Mumbai Indians. The game didn’t start until 4 pm though so we thought we would take advantage and see a bit of what Bangalore had to offer. First stop was theContinue reading “The IPL at Bangalore”

We had another day in Bangalore as our train to Hampi didn’t leave until 10pm. So after a lazy start we headed out to the Sri Radha Krishna temple to see the Hare Krishnas. The grounds were huge and judging by the crowd barriers set up and the number of spots to leave your shoesContinue reading “Another day in Bangalore “

The only reason I knew that I had slept on the train was that I woke up early just in time to see the sun rise and get ready for our arrival in Hospet the train station serving Hampi. We really weren’t sure what to expect but we had a suspicion it was going toContinue reading “Wonderful Hampi!”

The sites of Hampi are spread over 36 sq km and there are apparently 3700 monuments scattered around. Hampi was once the Empire Vijayanagar which at its peak housed 500,000 people. As the site is so huge we had organized a rickshaw with Veejay the guy who picked us up yesterday and started in theContinue reading “Hampi Day 2”

We were struggling with where to go after Hampi, we knew we wanted to head north but our options for going to Pune directly involved night buses and we didn’t fancy travelling that far by night which we didn’t think was going to involve much sleep and we wouldn’t see any of the countryside. SoContinue reading “Surprisingly Fantastic Bijapur”

We had a distance of 350kms to travel from Bijapur to Pune and according to the man at the enquiries desk at the bus station the day before, there were buses every half an hour in the morning but it would take us a good 7 to 8 hours to get there. We both decidedContinue reading “Pune”

Well I wasn’t sure if we had refreshed and recovered fully during our stay in Pune but we soon descended into the “other side” of India once we had left the city and were sat on our bus on the way to Aurangabad. It was only a journey of about 250km but once again wasContinue reading “A Visit to Ajanta Caves”

We caught a local bus to another set of caves 50kms outside of Aurangabad. These caves were carved out after Ajanta and were a mix of Hindu (AD600-900), Buddhist (AD600-800) and Jainism (AD800-1000). The first cave was the Kailasa Temple Cave. The interesting thing about this temple is that it was carved from the topContinue reading “Ellora Caves”

Train travel in India is certainly an experience. We are armed with the correct apps for booking our tickets and feel we are pretty easy going and able to overcome most obstacles put in our way but even so you have to retain a sense of humour and some patience when travelling by train inContinue reading “Train to Mumbai”