Mumbai or Bombay to some. Our very last stop in India. We only used it as overnight stop for our flight so didn't explore too much.We were pretty much next door to the infamous Taj Hotel which was victim to the terrorist attack in 2008. The only thing we saw was The Gateway of India which literally is just a big gate. The rest of the city that we saw was just another Indian city.So how do we sum up the last six weeks in India? It's been very up and down.For David...

This post should read a little bit like Koh Samui - Relaxing, Sunbathing, Drinking, Eating - Repeat X 6. To finish our time in India we headed back to Goa for a week. We had to go back to Goa due to our pre-booked train ticket leaving from there to Mumbai. Determined to spend more time on beautiful beaches we based ourselves in Anjuna, known to be a bit of a backpacker hangout and easy access to the busier Baga beach where the fun happens. The plan would be to su...

Hampi. How do we describe somewhere like Hampi? We are clueless. We could use movies and easily compare it to either the Flintstones or Indianna Jones. We could also say the landscape looks like the planet Mars. It definitley feels like an ancient lost city. But then it has tropical palm trees and fields of banana plantations surrounding it. Anyway, we absolutely loved it and when you consider they don't serve meat or alcohol anywhere that's quite a compliment!Of...

Following Munnar, the plan was to go to Palolem in Goa and spend some more time beaching it in the sunshine before we flew to South Africa.We arrived after a long journey which involved passing twelve hours between trains in a shopping mall. And wow, what a place. In the right season Palolem has a beautiful long crescent shaped golden beach, lined with palm trees and backed with inexpensive beach shacks and food stalls. The little town behind the beach has lots o...

It wasn't the best start for Munnar. Firstly, our 6 hour bus/train journey became a 10 hour journey due to being delayed because a drunk man got on the bus and started shouting various communist remarks that started a bit of a fight with every other bloke on the bus. This meant we had to wait ages for the police to arrive, who then arrested about half of the bus. As well as this, our bags got soaking wet on the bus from the heavy downpour of rain from outside. On...