We reunite with the mother Ganga once again in Veranasi, but it seems a little different from where we left it on rishikesh. The river was no longer the beautiful crystal blue river we onced rafters down and drank in an religious ceremony. The mother Ganga in Veranasi was quite the opposite: brown, dirty river where there were a constant number of people washing themselves, their clothes and anything else in it. Hundreds of hand made boats running up and down, ...

Fortunately for us, we have spent the last nine day in the beautiful town of Rishikesh, the yoga capital of the world. Located in Northern India, next to Haridwar. The small valley, with huge mountains towering each side and the beautiful mother Ganga river running through the middle. It has two small footbridges which connects both sides of the river. Footbridges that also commute motorbikes and cyclists. Which makes the bridges noisy and busy to cross....

For our third time to arrive back in noisy and poverty filled Delhi, Hannah and I checked into our back into our good ol' faithful hotel. The hotel Vishal. Our first few hours were gobbled up by stressful travel planning and once again our plans changed. We then met up with 3 of our friends from the Vipassna course, Erik from Estonia, Martina from Austria and Rahul from Delhi. As Rahul aka Ray was a local of Delhi he gave us a little tour around some of the sit...

VIPASSANA Being released back into crazy India after 10 days of peace and silence doing vipassana meditation, on the bus ride back to New Dehli one could only begin to imagine the steam of thoughts that was running through my mind about the past 10 days. Vipassana meditation was without a doubt one of the most challenging experiences of my life. After realising what I got myself into on the first day I cried to myself thinking that I would miss having Rich,...

Brrrr, waking up at 5am for a quick cup of chai and then to say our goodbyes to the Panchhal family, we then head off on a auto rickshaw to Jahnsi station. The ride we pretty chilly, it must have only been about 4 degrees! At 6.45am we departed from Jhansi station after kicking a family off our seats as they didn't have reservations! We had paid £4.30 for the both of is to travel in sleeper class on a train for 8 hours. The bench like seats had 3 tiers, mine wa...