We planned to stop over for a night in cold Mt Abu but had to stay over for 1 more as we could not book a train for the next day. This is supposed to be a holiday town for the locals well, apart from the fact that it is slightly cleaner and there are less beggars than the other places we've been it still looks and feels like a bit of a s***hole! We took a walk around the town on day one and hired a moped for day two, to visit all the temples. They were pretty imp...

After a long overnight train journey where neither of us got much sleep cos it was cold and crowded and we left it a bit late to get the civilized class so we had to rough it with the locals! We arrived in Udiapur. Very nice city, much less crowded and noisey than Mumbai. We went for a tour around the magnificant palace on the lake which was featured in octop**** as was alot of the town...as a result the whole place is obsessed with the film and everywhere shows ...

After a long boring flight from SA to Mumbai we arrived in a confused state at the airport. We arrived at 1am but weren't due to book into the hotel until 7am the next morning but we decided to head there anyway and hope they'd let us in. We hopped into a taxi for the most edge-of-your-seat ride i'd ever been on - no rules, change lanes whenever or just don't stick to any lane at all and beeping constantly! Hotel let us in and we tried to get some sleep in the n...

Hi all, Yes Briege did get me to do something cultural/historic although now she probably knows more than me about the history and the correct events of Apartheid in South Africa as i spent most of the trip looking around while she listened intently to our guide. We left Cape Town harbour in slightly overcast conditions and thought it would be all right. Well, while we were on the island the wind picked up and the rain started to come down. We had a quick bus tr...

We left home on what looked like a good day. We drove into the reserve and decided to stop and have a swim at one of the many tidal pools. The beach was empty and we were quite sheltered from the wind. As there was nobody i decided to go for as wim in the buff, pretty cool! After lunch it was time for the short walk up to the old lighthouse for a lookout over the Cape of Good Hope but by the time we reached the top the cold air from the atlantic side had started ...