Wednesday 8th october - day 47 jaipur - ranthambore Gopal picks us up and takes us to the train station, we get sent to the general office, back to the reservation office, from one counter to another until the woman finally tells us, the details she gave us 5mins ago, to reserve a seat - we now cant have as we have to book 4 hours in advance!? what the f***. We are offered a train at 7pm but its expensive..so gopal offers to drive us there and back for a really...

tuesday 7th october - day 46 jaipur Yas is feeling better so I show her nibs - obviously we have the waffles. Gopal picks us up from there and takes us to the post office helping us post ours and sydneys parcels. We are there ages as they dont do envelopes or boxes.- everything is packaged in hand sewn white fabric and then sealed with hot wax. Medieval or!? We go straight to eleday. An elephant experience place where gopal has managed to bargin us some cheap...

monday 6th october - day 45 jaipur Yas is sick so opts to stay in for the day today. Me, syd and erin head to nibs cafe Chocolataria for breakfast which doesnt dissapoint. Eggs and caramel coffe to start, we then all share a huge plate of chocolate and banana waffles to finish. After a few hours of gorging and pouring over the menu we take a rik to amer fort. Our rik driver is a guy called gopal and he offers to drive us about for the day - for whatever we thin...

Sunday 5th october - day 44 jaipur Ok so the most important thing today is not exploring jaipur, but securing a glastonbury ticket. Sydney and erin head off out and we set up the 2 mobiles, yas's tablet and even use the hostel computer! 26 mins later, we didn't get past the holding page but a mate from home has sorted them for us thank god. After all that stress, we head out to badi chaupar for shoping and to see the hawa mahal. Jaipur, known as the pink city...

Saturday 4th october - day 43 agra Up at 5am for the sunrise, and retty much everyone has the same idea, we head out at 5.45m with a girl emma from mexico. We walk to the taj from our hostel which takes 15mins.. tickets are 750 and we join the que to get in. Were inside by about 6.30 and its already busy.. The taj was built by the mughal emperor shah jahan for his favourite wife mumtaz mahal who died in 1631. The tomb is described as an image of the islami...