Pushkar was the kind of place where travellers get to and then stop for months. it has a really relaxed atmosphere a bit like Rishikesh and is also a place of pilgramage for Hindus who come here to bathe in the holy lake and visit the only Bhramin Temple in India. Throughout the trip we have visited lots of temples and found Hinduism to a be a really nice peaceful religion. It is amazing how many of the things people believe in England have their roots in this re...

Dada came up trumps on the hotel in Jaipur and it was a really nice hotel in a quiet part of time run by an ex army major. We spent the night playing Triominos- this is a three sided version of dominos which Dada takes very seriously. He performs a very funny good luck ritual every time he picks up a piece and thinks Gareth is a miracle man because he won two games in a row...After a good nights sleep we met Dada's friend Chand who was to be our guide of Jaipur f...

By the time we left Keoladeo it was getting on and we still had another 5 hours to drive. Unfortunately the road was closed and with the usual lack of diversion signs we asked for directions. These sent us an hour down a dusty road to a dead end and we had to make a massive back track to find a way. By this point it was pitch black and Dada kept praying to the God he has on his dashboardf which doesn't make us any calmer. We did eventually get there and went to a...

So we headed off to Agra which is a couple of hours outside Delhi and home to India's most famous monument, the Taj Mahal. On the way we stopped at a beautiful Hindu Temple made of white marble where we were told that only male vegetarians could be close to God…so that rules us two out. In Agra we checked into a lovely hotel on Dada's recommendation. One of the best things about Dada is that he recommends great hotels and restaurants and refuses to take commiss...

Hi All, Sorry it has been so long since we last wrote, but it has been a hectic week and we haven't had chance to get on the internet. This means that this is the first of five blogs we are going to write today...so pleae check back in an hour if they are not all up here yet. So as we said last time the flight back was all a bit hurried and last minute. Unfortunately we choose the day of all the storms to fly so we landed in Frankfurt a couple of hours late an...