27th October Happy Diwali! The festival actually started yesterday but as we were in transit for most of it we didn't really experience it that much. Well, until the sun set that is, then all hell broke loose! It went from light to dark so quickly here, I literally looked down for a second and the sun had set without me noticing. That's when Diwali really got started - gone was the gentle chanting from across the lake, the peaceful atmosphere shattered by the LO...

Early start today - we set off for the Amber Fort which is a half hour auto-rickshaw ride away. As we got closer I began seeing elephants everywhere, passing them on the road as we drove to the base of the mountain on which the Amber Fort stands. It was only when we reached the bottom of the path which leads up to the fort that I realised how many elephants there were - there must have been fifty of them! I got super excited and took far too many photographs - th...

23rd October Pre-drinks yesterday, dad and I where given Himalaya Party Smart, herbal tablets which sound pretty dodgy but apparently counteract the side effects of consuming alcohol so you wake up nice and refreshed and hangover free. They totally worked! Well they did for me anyway, dad not so much.... We caught the 13:30 train from New Delhi station (which is massive!) to Jaipur and settled into some lovely window seats for the 5½ hour journey. As it was a...

One word...HANGOVER. Dad was definitely worse than me but neither one of us felt great to be honest. Every morning so far we've been leaving the hotel not long after 10am, today it was more like 12:30pm. We decided that a more low key day was definitely in order and caught the metro down to Bangla Sahib Gurudwara - Delhi's largest Sikh temple. A white marble building topped by a huge golden onion shaped dome built in 1664. We met one of the guides and he gave us ...

We took the Delhi metro for the first time today and comparing it to the London tube I have to admit that in a lot of respects it's a lot better! (Fair enough it was only built last year but that's completely beside the point lol). Firstly, it's certainly a lot cheaper - we got ourselves the Delhi equivalent to an oyster card, complete with 3 days unlimited travel for just 300 rupees. To clarify, that's less than £5! The tube itself is just as crowded as London ...