Category Archives: India

We have been having a lot of trouble buying train tickets in India as they all seem to sell out weeks in advance and as we never know where we are going or how long we are staying in a place we have been too late when we go to purchase. With 18 million peopleContinue reading “Manic Mumbai”

Mumbai is such a huge city, 22 million people live in the metropolitan area which is just shy of the total population of Australia! The city is spread out over a fairly large area and there was no way that we were going to be able to see everything Mumbai had to offer so weContinue reading “Last Day in Mumbai”

Our time in Mumbai had come to an end and we were heading into Gujarat via train. Luckily Tim checked the train station we were leaving from as it wasn’t the one we thought. Our Uber ride to the station took us on a pretty impressive ride via a freeway that was built over theContinue reading “Pavagadh and Champaner”

While we have done fairly well in keeping our pace up around India we have found it to be slightly harder to get around than other places we have visited. While everyone is friendly and helpful the heat and the franticness of the place just make travelling fairly exhausting. Also as we haven’t prebooked andContinue reading “Resting and Relaxing in Vadodara “

Slightly bleary eyed after our interrupted sleep last night we caught our early morning bus to Udaipur. Upon arrival Tim had his usual fun with the rickshaw drivers which involves him asking how much, telling them they are kidding themselves, they come back with something like “but sir it is very far” or my favoriteContinue reading “Udaipor”

It was actually quite a bit of fortune that we had to detour through Udaipur because not only was it a really cool place to be but we were going to be able to use it as a base to see the second longest wall in the world! Yes a mere 80km away was India’sContinue reading “The 2nd Longest Wall in the World”

Another day, another early bus. This time we were catching a private tour operator bus. Our taxi man from yesterday picked us up and dropped us off in front of a ramshackle tourist agency located on a road that had an overpowering smell of urine. We were a little dubious of our guesthouse’s praise ofContinue reading “Jodhpur “

Coming from a hot country ourselves our usual tactic in escaping the heat is to rise early before the sun has had a chance to warm up. Not in India though. While on the Sunshine Coast by 6:30 am the roads are full of Lycra wearing cyclists and the footpaths full of Latte drinkers (alsoContinue reading “Mehrangerh Fort Jodhpur”

 We booked a very last minute tour last night to go and see a few of the villages outside of Jodhpur. It was supposed to be a morning spent relaxing but we had been told that the village tour was a must do by a our taxi man in Udaipur and after looking it upContinue reading “Bishnoi Village Safari Tour”