Category Archives: India and Sri Lanka

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”

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”