Hello, We have spent the last week or so in the hill station city of Darjeeling. The city is set 7000ft in the foothills of the himalayers and is reported to have fantastic views of the worlds highest mountains, although visibility was so bad the whole week or so that all we really saw was cloud. Darjeerling has a very different feel to the other parts of India, firstly because of the temprature, coming from the 30+ degree heat of Varanasi it was quite a shock...

hey all, So this isnt a proper blog entry but i thought id give you a quick update on our plans. We are currently in Darjeeling after a 14hour overnight train (on which we had to argue for our beds as an Indian family had decided to go to sleep on our bunks! Very inconsiderate) followed by a 3hour taxi ride up very steep and winding mountain roads with no barriers to stop you falling off the side. Unfortunatly i thought this is exactly what would happen as it wa...

Morning all, Beginning from where we left off in Khajuraho. We had a nice dinner with Anna and Simon in an Italian resturant (I know its cheating but there is only so much Indian food you can take without a break). We decided to sit outside on the roof- which was nice but there were millions of bugs EVERYWHERE! Afterwards we took a bicycle rickshaw the 5km back to out hotel, giving the driver a good workout. The next day was spent travelling, we got another e...

Hey all, I've addded some more photos to this site but i couldnt be bothered to sort them into different places so yourl have to wait till i get home or guess!! Since our last blog entry we have been really busy. We had a 3 hour drive from Jaipur to Ranthambore National Park on sunday. When we arrived we had a few hours to relax in our rather posh hotel with huge gardens and swimming pool, before visiting Ranthambore fort. It was built in the 10th centry and y...

OK, I want to start by writing a few guidelines to driving in India: (1) Always drive on the LEFT (this does not apply to cars, vans, mopeds, rickshaws, auto-rickshaws, motorcycles, pedestrians, cyclists, cows, camels, any other motorised vehicle, andy other non-motorised vehicle, any other road user). (2) Yor horn is the most important piece of equiptment you own- you MUST use it at every oppertunity. (3) If a gap looks big enough for a moped, it IS big enoug...