Spent a few hours at the Craft Museum which showed a collection of traditional houses from the various states as well as good exhibitions of craft. The textile museum was particularly interesting despite being badly lit and in need of more information and signage. We did our shopping at the Central Cottage Industries Emporium which was a large building selling handicraft, furniture, paintings and textiles from all the Indian states. It had the appealing benefit ...

Despite having arranged wake up calls for both rooms, only Rosie managed to get 2 calls - presumbably the 2nd call was for me - she did inform them that they had already called her and that they should call the other lady, but I guess they had filled their quota of 2 calls so I didn't get one (just as well I had set my phone alarm). We set out at 5:45 am with our park guide for the 20 minute drive to Sariska National Park - a former hunting reserve of the royal ...

I started the day by contacting our tour rep as the vehicle we had been promised our journey was a Toyota Innova but the vehicle we were offered was only a Tata sedan. Having travelled in it from the airport and experiencing the suspension, it was clear that the journey was not going to be a comfortable one around Rajasthan given the state of some of the roads. They argued that they knew nothing about the Toyota from the Australian office but I stuck to my guns a...

Early start for Cheryl and Rosie (flight at 08:40) while Clive and his party left a bit later (flight at 10:15). Transfer worked OK and check in was smooth and we were soon settled in the Thai Airways lounge. Boarded a bit late and were also delayed on the tarmac so we were 40 minutes late into Delhi. Met by our tour representative in Delhi with driver and were soon into Delhi's chaotic traffic to the hotel. After our briefing I knocked on Roger's door (friend ...