Wayanad is a wildlife sanctuary in far north east of Kerala, known for having a lot of wild elephants. We had given only given ourselves one full day here so we hoped we were lucky enough to see elephants on our only safari. The town where we were staying was some way from the sanctuary entrance and was in a pretty sad state of affairs, our hotel room reflected this too. This was more like the travelling we'd expected!  On our second day we managed to get o...

We arrived in Mysore after a looong night bus. Pretty much got no sleep as it was an AC bus so I was pretty chilly! We only had this one day in Mysore due to Tom being unwell in Hampi. We'd booked a hotel already (by Tom, primarily as it was by a supermarket and McDonalds!) so we headed there and went to sleep for a few hours so we could make the most of the afternoon without being zombies!  McDonald's for lunch as Tom didn't want to go near any Ind...

We came over the hill in our tuk tuk into Hampi and wow what a view! Pretty darn impressive. Lots of huge boulders on the landscape surrounded by lots of banana plantations. We've not seen anything like this before in India. Tom said it was like being in the Flintstones :). We stayed in Hampi Bazaar which is a very small little village. Lots of cows and poop everywhere and smelt as well as looked like a farmyard at times. It is overlooked by a beautiful templ...

We stayed in a place called Calangute in Goa, a small beach town. Lots of greenery, palm trees and banana plants everywhere. We had a nice little guest house even if our room did smell a bit funny! Everything seemed newly painted and decorated which was nice. One thing we noticed was that the majority of buildings in the area all seemed to have blue tarpaulin over their roofs, including our hotel. It was set up in a fairly haphazard way, attached to poles and fix...

So our train journey to Mumbai was interesting. If you haven't seen the video on Facebook that Hannah made then I suggest you do. The story goes something like this. We had pre-booked second sitting reservations for the journey which was supposed to take about 8 hours. Usually we'd go on a sleeper train for anything above 5 or 6 hours as it can get pretty un-comfy sat on hard seats for that length of time. Sadly due to the popularity of the route we had n...