I well and truly have "Delhi belly"! We have made it to our first hotel outside of Delhi. The driver picked us up at 8am and we had a 7 hour drive into Rajasthan to the small town of Mandawa. We are staying in a beautiful decorated "haveli" (see picture). On the way here Ange reckons we saw; 40 camels, 60, goats, 80 cows and 5 other white people. So after a few emergency toilet stops on the way, I'm now led in bed and writing this between brief but frequent ...

09/12 - 11.30pm. Arrived in India almost an hour later than expected to eventually meet Ange waving at me from outside of baggage claim. 10/12 - 12.30am. Jump into a taxi expecting to arrive at our hotel around 30 mins later. Fall victim, despite our best efforts, to one of India's many scans. 10/12 - 4.30 am. Time for bed in our very over priced hotel thanks to the scam, could have been a lot worse. 10/12 - 9.45am. A relatively early rise for me in order to ...