Day 11 - A fateful / fatal day... our driver from the night before planned to take us to Hawa Mahal, Jantar Mantar and City Palace before visiting his Guru friend. All was going swimmingly as we paid our fee for the Hawa Mahal and went round each of its 6 floors. We admired its multi-colorured glass windows and high arches. Olivia spotted a cute mischevious monkey on the 4th floor and after a wander we made it to the 5th floor. Admiring the views and an adorable ...

Day 8 - At 4.30 we got up and headed through a dark Jaipur to find our train. Luckily clearly labelled platforms showed us where to go and we found ourselves next to some nice people who worked in Swindon. The journey was nice and cool in AC and with men walking up and down with water, chai and breakfast it made for an enjoyable few hours. After reaching our plain but nice room at Hotel Sidhartha we walked to buy tickets for the Taj Mahal. Luckily our hotel is 1m...

Day 5 ctd - And so we made it safely to Delhi airport with plenty of time on our hands. Luckily according to the departure board our plane left perfectly on time (even though we were yet to be called to board!) After our initial fears of boarding a very fragile looking plane, a great on board curry and the steward giving me (Catherine) extra chocolate fudge cake made the short flight fly by! Soon we were driving past peacocks and camels to get to Hotel Bani Park ...

Day 1 - Olivia and I both enjoyed our early start practising our exploring skills at Heathrow. After 8 1/2 hours of suprisingly nice plane food and movies we landed in Delhi. Luckily our driver met us and sped us away to our taxi. We found ourselves at 1am being driven through Delhi streets filled with animals people and all kinds of vehicles, we've soon become used to the continuous horn beeping. Day 2 - It was Thursday and after three attempts and having been ...