Madurai to Mumbai (via the beautiful beaches of Goa!)Our train journey down to Madurai wasn't as bad as we'd feared. We both had the upper berths in our compartment, which are fixed so we were able to stretch out on them any time of the day, and being quite close to the carriage roof they gave us a bit more privacy in a male-dominated carriage! We kept ourselves occupied chatting to each other and fellow passengers, reading and listening to music, and fla...

Varanasi to PuriWe DID get up at dawn in Varanasi to go down to the ghats, but it was pitch black, there'd been torrential rain overnight and we didn't think that two girls stumbling around in the sludge and dark was a good idea, not one of our best decisions! We knew that dawn would be dismal, so we went back to our hotel beds for a couple of hours, and woke up at 9 to yet more torrential rain...We had a soggy day wandering around Varanasi and got so tir...

Well, we've survived nearly 2 weeks in India! It was a bit of a shock to the system at first, Delhi was just all hustle and bustle and nothing like we've ever seen before. Auto-rickshaws, cycles, rattling buses everywhere, all honking horns and ignoring road markings... mayhem! We did a bit of sight-seeing in Delhi, ate some street food, wandered along the crowded and chaotic main market, and booked our first train journey...From Delhi we travelled by sle...