Mr taxi man was there to greet me when I got off the plane, and even more surprising my rucksack had arrived as well.So we blasted off towards Varanasi with him changing gear at around 400 RPM each time. How the engine never stalled or gave up the will to live and just fell out I will never know.As we got near the chaos of the main street he told me the traffic is too bad and that I would need to take a short walk to the hotel, but that a porter would meet me an...

I walked what I now knew was the extremely short walk back to the station for my train to Agra.I started to panic a bit as I started to watch the trains pull in as people were cramming in a way I had not witnessed since Tokyo. But these were not nice air conditioned five minute journeys, these were crammed in to carriages with no air con and open doors for many hours.I was praying my train would not be the same as I had booked second class and my journey was fiv...

JaipurThe hostel I had booked had said it was walking distance from the station, but given what happened in Delhi, I decided to go wild and get a rickshaw for the guide price of 20p.I was approached in the station by a young lad who spoke good English, and I told him I just wanted a rickshaw.Usual story he wanted a crazy price, but he had friends in Manchester and he has been working in taxis for long time and he have good business blah blah blah.I started to wa...

DelhiTotally forgot about the time difference and realised that by the time I had landed and got to the hostel I had not actually had any sleep. Problem was I had only the one day to get the sightseeing done, so I had to suck it up and get cracking.Arriving in Delhi was a nightmare. To get to the hostel was easy, according to my map you just head straight out the west main station entrance. Only problem was that the metro station stopped on the East side.To say ...