Right so from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur we headed on the bus up to the middle of malaysia - to kuala kangsar.  Here we were picked up by our …

After a train ride with a few too many cockroaches - making sleeping uneasy! - we were awoken at 4am to get off at Varanasi.  Following a taxi…

We were all excited to leave the bird watching place and get on the road to Agra - home of the Taj Mahal.  Built by a Mughal Emperor named Sha…

We had only a short bus ride of an hour anf a half to Bharatpur - plus 4 of us and our luggage cramming into each tuk tuk to take us to some resort…

The first thing we did in Jaipur was to visit an NGO which supports local street kids to educate them and feed them and help them learn a trade so …

After Udaipur we got up nice and early at 6.30 am to scoff a banana pancake and hit the road.  We loaded onto autorickshaws up to the bus stat…

The group decided to spend extra on a car to drive us the 6 hours to Udaipur rather than the 8 hour bus.  We stopped in the Bishnoi vill…

We got off the bus at Jodhpur and straight into autorickshaws to take us to the hotel.  The rooms were nice and we spent a while getting washe…

After a lovely thali lunch at the hotel - made up of 4 little pots, 2 with veg curries and one with rice and one with raita yoghurt, completed with…

The 22 hour train journey to Jaisalmer went really smoothly.  We were in the air conditioned sleeper carriage, with three bunks on each side o…

After a mad week of eating extensive amounts of haagen daazs and thai food in london, and a spot of partying and catching up with relatives - i ret…

Leh was a welcome stop after the long bus ride of two days to get there!  The air was crisp and cool - as it was so high an altitude - but at …

This is a two day extravaganza of a bus ride passing from the lush green Alp-like mountains of Kashmir into the desert style mountains of Ladakh, e…

This is a two day extravaganza of a bus ride passing from the lush green Alp-like mountains of Kashmir into the desert style mountains of Ladakh, e…

Srinagar was an interesting experience. the army guy who looked super angry tried to get me to go back on the plane before i even set foot on kashm…

oh yes.  Living the dream.  So we finsihed the tour in Goa - moving from the last hotel on the tour to a small beach resort of about 10 r…

We got off the overnight train in Bangalore and got a long 3 hour bus into mysore.  Bit tiring that bit - but we got there - negotiated auto r…

We headed to Kochi from the home stay with a boat and bus ride - about 3 hours.  In Kochi we set up in the hotel and the girls went to get hen…

We were treated to staying in a family in the small farming villages set within the backwaters - by pulling up the clay from under the water and se…

Varkala is probably a nice town - but i didnt see much of it.  Instead we were staying in a typical tropical beach resort - ne you could find …

Although we were all charmed by the easy life in Mammallapurum, we had to get up early to get an 8 hour train to Madurai.  This would be our f…

After a bus ride of about an hour and 45 mins from Chennai to Mammallapuram, the kneck of my white shirt had turned a dark brown/black from the pol…

Heathrow airport had been pretty easy t manage.  Security was a 2 minute stroll through, small terminal and easy bag drop since I checked in t…

Yet another day has passed spent agonising over the pre-departure arrangements for this trip. The amount of organisation involved has been unexpec…