I must admit I was pretty excited about coming to Goa. Although all the travelling had been great and I was loving every minute of it I felt it was definitely time for a rest. I was also looking forward to actually being able to unpack! And stay unpacked for more than a 2 days! We were picked up at the train station and driven to our villas, Tarika's Gold Coast Villas. They were lovely villas of varying shapes and sizes and all different bright colours. There was...

In order to get to Mumbai we first had to endure the mammoth 28 hour train journey. This we really had not been looking forward to. It was not quite as bad as we had expected. It was pretty crowded in our compartment at times but we were happy enough reading our books and listening to music. Unfortunately some of our fellow passengers decided to go to bed pretty early, about 7pm! which meant folding down the beds, meaning we had nowhere else to go but bed. Once a...

We left Khajuraho for our long journey to Varanassi. Disaster struck immediately as we left our hotel to head to the bus station. Me and Lauren both piled into an old rickety cycle rickshaw complete with our big rucksacks. There was hardly any space and we were both perched on to the seat. The driver picked up a bit too much speed then made a sharp turn throwing Lauren from the rickshaw, bags and shoes flying through the air! Luckily she only sustained some minor...

After spending a day and night in Delhi, where we caught up with some fellow travellers, had a cocktail in QBar and spent a rather long time waiting on Ali to organise our tickets and vouchers for the rest of the trip, we were on a 6am train to Jhansi. This came after the news the night before showing scenes from the Mumbai train incident which went on fire. Needless to say we were pretty nervous about the journey. However, everything went smoothly. The train sta...

Basically there wasn't much to do in Bikaner. I think we mainly stopped there to break up the journey between Jaisemler and Mandawa. We arrived late in the afternoon and much to our delight were staying in a lovely hotel. We had some dinner in the nice restaurant in the hotel where a wedding party were also eating. There saris were beautiful and one of the aunties even came over to speak. After dinner we were delighted to discover we had a movie channel in our ro...