So we have made it across the width of Asia from one ocean to another!! The last few days we have been continuing on our journey through India, after Bharatpur we travelled to Jaipur. We went on a visit to the Amber Fort which is in Amber just outside Jaipur. It is a pretty big fort set on a hillside and is quite picturesque, there were elephants that tourists could ride up to the fort but they looked a bit sad (not as happy as the ones in Chitwan) so we just wal...

After a delayed flight from Kathmandu and then a superfast take off as Air India flights refuse to leave after 5pm due to the rubbish air traffic control in Nepal and so depend on sight for take off we arrived in Varanasi to see the famous Ganges or as Mark calls it the sewer.We got to our guest house after trailing through the back alleys of Varanasi and wading through animal poo and past a few cows and a dead dog; all a very nice start to Varanasi. Luckily our ...