So after an epic 28 hour train journey from Kolcatta, a one night stop over in Jabalpur followed by a six hour bus journey we were finally in Khana National Park! Boy was it HOT! Melting, melting, melting!  We had planned to stay for three full days and attempt to see some tigers. On our first morning we spoke to our hotel to book a safari to be told that there were no more tickets available until after we were due to leave. WHAT? We hadn't travelled all th...

We decided to go to the Andaman Islands as we'd heard a few people talk about them and once we'd looked at some photos online it was too hard to resist. White beaches fringed with palm trees, a desert island type experience. The Andamans are actually quite a large group of islands but our plan was to spend most time on Havelock Island which has most of the resorts and then move to Little Andaman much much further south. Interestingly, some of the islands ...

From Darjeeling to Kolkata (Calcutta as it used to be known) we had to take our first sleeper coach! We'd seen these before and thought they looked quite comfy. You basically have a little compartment, above the seats, in which two people are supposed to sleep. It was just about bearable with two of us in there lying at opposite ends and the coach was at a standstill. When the coach was moving however it was impossible to sleep. The bus driver was constantly ...

Darjeeling – Tea (ovbiously) and tasty food!!  The main touristy area in Darjeeling is relatively small. You could probably walk from one end to the other in half an hour or so so it didn't take us long to figure out where everything was. It was nice to have everything all close together for a change so we could walk everywhere and not have to worry about flagging down transport. We had a look in a few tea shops and book shops. It didn't actually ...