We reached Jodhpur in good time and wasted no time getting to know the place. Our driver dropped us off at the huge fort that looked down on the city. This was probably the most impressive fort so far. It was well run and looked in good condidtion, we grabbed our headsets and set off on the trip around this thing. From certain points around the fort you can look down on the (whats known as) Blue city. Its actually the old town of Jodhpur and a lot of the houses a...

So we reached Jaisalmer! This particular stop off was going to be for 2 nights. the first was spent 40km just outside of the town at Khuri Town. Here we were going to ride Camels out in the desert and watch the sunset.....yes thats right, Camels!!. The camp where we were based at was very nice, a number of mud huts were the sleeping quarters and the main gathering point was in the centre of these. Around 5pm we headed out on safari. These camels were big boys, at...

We arrived at Bikaner with the hope that it might be just a little bit of a step up from Mandawa, oh how we were wrong. Yes it was bigger, more busy and possibly a bit more to do but the stench was unbelievable. The plan for the day was to go and visit the fort that resides in the town, so we headed over there in the blistering heat we might add (36c +) and did our thing. It was 100rs in and then you had to PAY to use your OWN camera, cheek of it. The fort itself...

So, We left the smog filled Delhi behind and headed west towards Jaisalmer, before we were to reach there though, we had a few stops to make, the first being in Mandawa. This was literally a stop over although the hotel was beautiful. The town itself was very old and run down with many peole trying to make a living selling tat to tourists, quite a sad place really. The guy at the hotel gave us a little tour of the town and took us into whats known as Havellis. T...

So, GOA had been officially done. It was a lovely place, very green, chilled and laid back but also very dam wet. We arrived in the evening after a 12 hour train journey from Mumbai, it was of course pouring down with rain at this point. We shared a taxi with a couple we met on the train, Christine and Daniel, a nice couple over from Irealnd doing a few months in India. We arrived at the guest house and got our room sorted, it was a bit smelly (damp) and not com...