Since the last update, we have explored another city called Jaipur which is full of history. We have seen many temples, mosques, fortes and palaces. Yesterday we caught a plane from Delhi to Bangalore with a local cheapy air carrier. Bangalore is quite a modern city, it is where most of the Indian support centres are located which we seem to talk to when calling telephone or computer companies in Australia. It is not that dissimilar to Brisbane or Adelaide. It i...

We arrived in Delhi about 2 days ago, yesterday we spent looking around the Delhi sites, and today we saw the Taj Mahal and Forte in the town of Agra, 200kms south of Delhi. I cannot even begin to tell you the frustration we have had trying to get to India. In short, the ticket given to us by our travel agent, was damaged, and was missing the coupon that we needed to travel from Bangkok to Delhi (via Hong Kong). Because of this, Cathay Pacific would not allow us ...

We are now in Chang Mai, quite a large city in Northen Thailand. I think its actually the capital of the northern province. Chang Mai is renowned for being a very "cultural" city in Thailand, where the food and dialect are quite different to the rest of Thailand. We took a 14 hour train ride to get here, it was an overnight sleeper train. Getting off the train, we were immediately surrounded by about 30 touts trying to get us to stay at their guest hous...

Bangkok is not what we were expecting. It's far better! We got here late last night and had to scramble around to find a room in khao san rd -we managed to gank the last available room in one guesthouse. The room is pretty nice with aircon, which apparently almost blew up during the night. People down on the street were questioning what the high pitched squeal /motorbike noise was! Heath woke up and turned it off but i managed to sleep through the whole thing. ...

Yesterday Kerry and I caught a ferry from Koh Pha Ngan to Koh Tao, it took about 2 hours. Koh Tao is pegged as some of the best scuba diving in asia, so i thought i must have a go. We were approached by a tout (haggler) on the ferry promising everything for nothing, which i got sucked in to. Anyway, after 2 hours of inspecting rooms and negotiating prices, we had ourselves a room for 2 nights, and 2 scuba dives for myself (for about $120 AU all up). While the div...