Well, we arrived in Jalgaon in order to visit the Ajanta caves and managed to end up in one of the cleanest, friendliest hotels yet - Hotel Plaza. The following day we went to Ajanta caves which are hewn out of a rock face and are between 2200 and 1500 years old. They were made by buddhist monks in the rainy season and all have these amazing statues of Buddha and paintings. There's a really strange atmosphere inside and you can imagine what it might have been l...

Hello all, well we eventually persuaded oursleves to leave Goa and headed to a hill station called Matheran. Unfortunately to get there we had to stop in Pune which was not much fun at all, and we both think we saw a dead body in the street. We took a walk around the city and were quite shocked by the conditions some of the people had to live in. There are entire communities who live under bits of tarpaulin at the side of the road, cooking, playing cards and slee...

Arrived back in Palolem very early yesterday morning to find that the place has changed quite a bit since we were here 3 weeks ago. The train that delivered us here took 17 hours so we were pretty tired when we arrived at 06:30. We didn't get a room till about 14:30 as the place is now entering high season and is getting busy. We were both very happy to shower at that point! Will be in Goa now for the next 3-4 weeks ish but might be moving north up the coast as ...

Arrived back in Palolem very early yesterday morning to find that the place has changed quite a bit since we were here 3 weeks ago. The train that delivered us here took 17 hours so we were pretty tired when we arrived at 06:30. We didn't get a room till about 14:30 as the place is now entering high season and is getting busy. We were both very happy to shower at that point! Will be in Goa now for the next 3-4 weeks ish but might be moving north up the coast as ...

Arrived back in Palolem very early yesterday morning to find that the place has changed quite a bit since we were here 3 weeks ago. The train that delivered us here took 17 hours so we were pretty tired when we arrived at 06:30. We didn't get a room till about 14:30 as the place is now entering high season and is getting busy. We were both very happy to shower at that point! Will be in Goa now for the next 3-4 weeks ish but might be moving north up the coast as ...