we left Bikaner in the morning and drove straight to Pushkar. When we arrived I could see mountains with temples right on top of them, and as we entered the town it looked a bit more relaxed and a bit more touristy than some of the other places we'd come from. Our hotel had a swimming pool, but as we had so much washing to do and only two hours until our camel ride we couldn't go for a swim. My camel was called Motif and the camel driver looked about 15. We w...

After stopping at a roadside cafe for breakfast and chatting to lots of Japenese tourists who were amazed by mine and lauras ali baba trousers ( not sure how they hadnt seen them before!), the driver stopped the car and told us we were going to visit the Kite temple. we were just about to take our shoes off, when he said the kite temple is the rat temple, and as it was too late to turn around we had to go in! I dont remember much of what the temple looked lik...

It was a 7 hour drive from Delhi to Mandawa, but we stopped half way for some breakfast at an Indian service station. There were colourful blankets made into a sunroopf in the garden and lots of flowers...much nicer than an english service station, and we had fried toast and some pineapple juice. We arrived at the hotel early afternoon and it was an old haveli style building with tiny balconys, paintings on the walls, an inside courtyard and in our room we had a ...

After a good nights sleep we had our complimentary breakfast at the hotel and set off with our tuktuk driver to see Old Delhi. Id completely forgotten how crazy it is to sit in the back of a tuktuk with cars, bikes and animals whizzing past from every direction, but managed to survive and first stop was the red fort. We refused the many tour guide offers, and wondered round by ourselves reading some of the signs so we knew a little bit of what was going on. Altho...

Was a bit scared about flying to the middle east on the way to Delhi but turns out that Oman air was the best plane journey i've been on, and they gave me three free meals!!! Didn't leave the airport in Muscat as were only there for two hours, but there were lots of mountains to look at through the airport window. We arrived in Delhi at about 2.30pm and were picked up in a hotel car which took us right through the centre so we got to experience the craziness of ...