We'd decided, in the end, to do a day trip to the Taj which is in Agra, a train ride of just under 2 hours from Delhi. A had already been there befor…

After a delayed flight, we arrived 3 hours late in Udaipur, but scored quite a nice room in a schmicker than usual place, Hotel Poonam Haveli (Rs40…

Then to Delhi. I wasn't feeling great and threw up after the steep 2km drive down the mountain, just past Dehra Dun, but I blame that on the travel…

We had an early start, which was tempered by the travel sickness pills most of us took, which made an apparently rough ride to Mussoorie quite pl…

After an early start, passing spectacular sheer cliffs, deep valleys and grassy terraces, we arrived in Shimla around 4pm. The entrance into the area…

Mike arranged a mini-bus and a driver, Kishore, to take us to our next destination, Pragpur, in the Himachal Pradesh district of India. This was…

We arrived quite late in Amritsar and slipped gratefully into our waiting beds (with hot water bottles) at Mrs Bhandari’s Guesthouse. (I might add …

Hot water bottles on arrival were a wonderful welcome. The 3 rooms occupied by our group were colourfully fitted out, with not too comfortable beds a…

We took an early flight from Mumbai to Delhi, where we would catch an evening train to Amritsar, so we had a solid few hours to spend in India's capi…

Despite being winter, the temperature in Mumbai was similar to the early summer weather we had just left in Australia, plus humidity. Thankfully, we …

I went here on my first full day in India, to ease my stomach into Indian cuisine. If I had started eating street food the following day, Indigo Deli…