Tried to update our itinerary but the iPhone cannot do it! :( Plans for India are: Thu 27/4 - Mandawa Fri 28/4 - Bikaner Sat 29/4 - Jaisalmer Mon 1/5 - Jodhpur Wed 3/5 - Udaipur Fri 5/5 - Pushkar Sat 6/5 - Jaipur Mon 8/5 - Ranthambhore National Park (Tiger Safari) Wed 10/5 - Agra Fri 12/5 - Kushinagar Sun 14/14 - Varanasi Our plans may change but this is a rough guide to where we will be. :)

Sat 28/4/12 (Today) A 9:30am start today which is late for us! :) After we left the main town of Mandawa Cam got to drive most of the way to Bikaner! It was a far more relaxing drive with him behind the wheel! Before we arrived we stopped at the Deshnok Temple where there were holy white rats, i think the main reason was to see what we thought before going to Karni Mata Temple which has thousands of rats. We arrived at Hotel Sagar at lunch time, it was much nice...

Thankfully we changed our 8:30am start to a 9am start but it was still a struggle to get out of bed. We checked out (only got charged for one night even though we booked two!!) and our driver was waiting for us. We had a nice air conditioned car for our drive to Mandawa. Stopped for lunch at Chandni Midway where we were both craving british food after eating nothing but Indian yesterday. The drive was lovely although i avoided watching the road otherwise i would ...

We landed in Delhi earlier than expect which suited fine as we had time to get money before our transfer to the hostel. We were staying at New King which was in the middle of a market style area like stone town in zanzibar. No rest for the wicked in Delhi, when we arrived at the hostel we were told that it was the holidays so we were best to get our transport booked as it would be really busy. The hostel was very helpful and booked us a taxi to take us for breakf...