Category Archives: India and Sri Lanka

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”

Jaisalmer came into existence as a town due to its position on the Silk Route and was an important stop for traders as they passed through this fairly inhospitable part of the world. As we approached the town we passed very little for ages apart from the odd village, otherwise it was pretty desolate andContinue reading “Jaisalmer…Hot, Hot, Hot!”

Think of all the negative stereotypes you have heard about India and I think you will have summed up our first day in Jaipur. Massive rubbish piles in the streets with people sifting through said rubbish, aggressive leery looking stares from men, huge amounts of very poor people and everyone trying to get money fromContinue reading “Jaipur”

We had a train to catch early morning but we were walking distance to the station. On the way we saw wild pigs eating at a massive pile of rubbish in the street where all the locals dump their trash for pickup. How often the pickup is I am not too sure but judging byContinue reading “Jaipur to Agra”

India’s number one sight and one of the most famous sights in the world is the Taj Mahal. It was fantastic seeing it across the rooftops and from the other side of the river but this morning we were actually going to see it from its most iconic position. Right in front with a perfectContinue reading “The Taj Mahal”

I told Tim it would be better to catch a train to Deli instead of a bus. We had managed to get emergency tickets in 3AC which is a compartment with 8 beds. Three tier bunks and then two on the other side of the isle. Soon after buying these tickets we found out thatContinue reading “Agra to Delhi”

I don’t think anyone we have spoken to has waxed lyrical when describing Delhi…and I don’t think we will either. It’s such a massive city (25 million inhabitants) that it would be absolutely impossible to discover fully in just three days. What I was expecting before we arrived certainly wasn’t what we saw though. InContinue reading “A Little Underwhelmed in Delhi”