5.15am our alarms went off! Today we would be visiting one of the most incredible and beautifully designed buildings in the world, the Taj Mahal! I couldn't believe we were actually going to see it, in all its glory! We caught a tuktuk there as we were aware the queues in the morning could be quite bad as it's the best time to go. On arrival in the pitch black, the queue was separated into two lanes, men and women. This was pretty pointless because the tickets di...

After a semi decent nights sleep, with only a few interruptions of people shouting outside our hotel room door, we headed for breakfast which was again toast and jam with some sweet lemon tea. Our driver Khan came to meet us at 9am outside the hotel. He made sure we didn't pay for our hotel room as the tourist company were paying for everything. Already, I liked the fact he was looking out for us. He knows the score here and that people will try anything but it r...

Well that was just as horrendous as I thought it might be! On a positive note, in the early hours of the morning, a train ticket officer came around and woke us up to see our tickets... sorry ticket. I startled awake with a jump and squinted until I could just about make out who he was. My first thought was we were being robbed as we had been warned several times that Varanasi station was known for pickpockets and people being drugged by their food and drink so t...