About Khajuraho… It's not that special, really. The temples we saw were definitely worth seeing, they are really well preserved and taken care of, also the area around the western group is very well maintained, and the park is a nice place to stroll around. Other than that, there wasn't that much to see. There would have been a national park nearby where one can see tigers, but we already did a similar thing in Nepal, and it would have cost a whole lot more her...

As the picture shows, we did see the Taj Mahal. Our next train was leaving at 23.20 so we had to make sure that our sightseeing would keep us occupied for as long as possible. That's why we didn't start until 12 o'clock noon, at the time of check out from our hotel. We had stayed the night in Idea Inn, a comfortable and clean hotel picked by the travel agency. The bed was the best on our trip so far. After checking out we left our backpacks at the hotel and let o...

Just writing a blog entry for the sake of the map below. I'm hoping that at the end of our trip the map will show all the key places we visited, but in order for it to work, we need to post these things from all our locations. Or, like in this case, lie a little. We're currently in Agra, but I'm setting the location to Jaipur. So what have we been up to? We spent a total of three nights in Rishikesh, more specifically Lachsman Jhula, and had a great time. We s...

Since this blog is a part time diary in addition to its day job of letting me vent out my frustrations and excitements, I thought that I should write down how we got to where we are right now. After we started our RTW trip in Kathmandu, we spent six nights in Pokhara, then three nights in Lumbini, and finally four in Chitwan. All of those have had their own blog entries so far, so we're up to speed there. After Chitwan we went back to Kathmandu for two nights, we...

It is customary, even mandatory, that when you go into a bazaar in almost anywhere in the world, that there will be people trying to rip you off. They tell you a price for their products that is ridiculously high compared to what they themselves have paid for it. The thing is, everyone knows this, as well as the fact that it is partly a game and like any other games, it needs two parties to play it. One ends up negotiating the price with the other and at best, bo...