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...

Over the course of the last 10 days we have flown from Delhi to the capital of Kerala province, Kochi. Here we stopped at the harbour side town of Fort Cochi for a couple of days, followed by a short bus ride to the town of Allepey. We then stopped the night on a houseboat exploring the famous Indian backwaters before we jumped onto a train to the seaside town of Varkala. To summarize...Fort CochiThis small area of the bigger city Ernakulam is an old fishing port...