After nearly four days of solid travelling, by train, taxi, rickshaw and a flight from mumbai to muscat to abu dhabi to bahrain and to paris, we arrived to what seemed like another world. delirious due to the lack of sleep and happiness of coming home, we found ourselves at charles de gaulle baggage claim. We decided we needed some luck and were crossing our fingers there where no problems, and were very glad to see our bags there safe and sound. We went st...

day 1 camel safari 31/3/05 We all met up and went for breakfast at the german bakery, which was shut so we all had biccies and bananas. We got in the jeep and after we seemed to have driven round in circles headed off to the desert. Our group included two more english, simon and ryan, an irish couple Graham and Caroline, Joe the oz, Milanie the american, and later Nic, Ellen and Christine an english family. We had two adult and o...

We arrived in jaisalmer tired and soo dusty. We walked out of the station to the sight of about 30 guys with huge signs advertising hotels, all being held back by police...eek, but we saw our sign and walked over, they knew our names and took us off to the hotel. We were feeling pretty grotty but our first view on the way of the fort was great, it looked like a huge sandcastle. We got to the hotel, typically and annoyingly to...

On our last day in Udaipur we finally organised a day trip to Ranakpur, a raved about jain temple complex 90km from Udaipur. We hired a taxi and it took 2hrs but it was worth it. We arrived and were told that Ian had to cover his bottom legs so he had to wear a silly pair of blue trousers (much to my enjoyment). The main temple is a huge beautifully kept temple with 400 columns most of which are intricately carved, there are ...

We woke on Holi in anticipation of chaos, poor old Chris had definitely got food poisoning and had had an awful night in the bathroom so after breakfast we sent him to bed and hung around, many groups of people were arriving at the rooftop of our hotel drenched in paint of every colour imaginable. We had bought 4 bags of paint ourselves ready for our turn. Looking off the roioftops we could see families throwing paint and buckets of water all over eachother. T...