This place is completely different to any place I have seen in India so far. It is remote, beautiful and feels like you have gone back in time. In a different way though from other parts of India, it is not the people or the infrastructure that gives this impression, it is the rock formations and its seemingly untouched beauty. The landscape has a Bedrock feel about it, you wouldn't be surprised if the Flintstones walked past or you saw rock cars with people ru...

Back to Goa, I am very excited about this as I loved it when me and Sarah were here. We are spending 2 nights in the north in Vagator and 2 nights in the south in Palolem. Both places had stunning sea views and lovely clean beaches. Vagator was much quieter, being low season there were not many people around and not many places open. But this really made the place feel peaceful and very relaxing, here we were staying in a lovely hotel in like a courtyard overl...

Our train journey to Mumbai did not get off to the greatest start, the train was delayed by 45 minutes and I was getting quite worried that we were in the wrong place and had missed it. Thankfully though the train arrived, but it made the trains we took between Delhi and Varanasi look like luxury. It was an old train and just felt dirty, however we got used to it and after what felt like a really long journey, we made it to Mumbai. After the laid back, calmnes...

I had such high hopes for Goa, after all the madness of Delhi and Varanasi, I was very much looking forward to some relaxing and a bit of calm. From our first view of Goa in the plane, I knew it was going to be great. It is the most beautiful place, on the drive to the hotel we went through picturesque forests and over vast rivers leading to the sea. The roads here are tarmac and there is a lot less traffic, but this is still India so they still use the horn an...

We got so many warning about this place from the Lonely Planet guide book, the Surviving India story I am reading on my kindle and from Anna, our tour guide. Everyone seems to say brace yourself, for the manic traffic and intense hassling, it is not for the faint hearted. We arrived in Varanasi on the overnight train from Delhi, I thought that train was comfortable; it was clean and didn't smell. We shared with an Indian mother and daughter who lived in Varanasi ...