Up bright and early to make sure we made the most of our only full day in Jaipur. First stop was the railway station where we bought a ticket from Ajmer (the nearest train station to our next destination, Pushkar) to Udaipur. We then headed to a recommended travel agent to book our bus from Jaipur to Pushkar. Afterwards we had our first experience of a cycle rickshaw, which was more comfortable than expected, except for the bumps when riding over the potholes i...

Woke up early to the prayers calls from a nearby mosque and headed to the Taj Mahal for 6am to watch the sunrise. The Taj is an amazing structure and the whole site is so peaceful and spiritual, even with the amount of people visiting! We sat in full vie of the Taj for around an hour as the sun rose above it. Unfortunately there was still a hazy atmsphere and although it was beautiful we felt slightly cheated! After walking round for a couple of hours and takin...

Out of bed by 4.45am this moring! That's right, the middle of the night! Left the room about 5.30am and woke the manager (he was only sleeping behind the counter, didn't actually get himout of bed!) to check out of Hotel Smyle, before our most peaceful walk down Main Bazar! It was still dark and all the shops and market stalls were shut (good for Sarah's lack of will-power - she'd been eyeing up a pashmina!) and we only got asked for a rickshaw ride about twic...

Got up at 8.00am and ate our usual breakfast of cornflakes, eggy bread, mango juice and coffee (we steal our bananas for when we need a snack!). After a quick session on the internet to make sure we had a bed in Agra, we headed, with Sam, to the train station and aprehensively bought our tickets to Agra (375 Rupees each). Following this we headed to Connaught Place where Sam booked her flight to Nepal. We then tried to tried to get further bus and train info f...

Early start to go on our city tour, along with Sam, a fellow Brit from Newcastle who is towards the end of her 11 month world tour. We set off from the hotel with our driver at 9.30am and were promptly stopped at the top of the Main Bazar by the New Delhi Traffic Police who gave our driver a ticket for driving the wrong way out of the bazar and not wearing a uniform! After the short stop we headed into Old Delhi which is a muslim quarter and is just as bustling ...