I am now in magical Hampi with my boyfriend. Hampi is a world heritage site and was once the powerful and wealthy capital of a kingdom. The landscape is made up of big rock boulders piled on top of each other looking like the playground of giants. In the planes stretching out below there are impossibly green rice fields where the locals harvest the plants by hand and carry them in big bundles on their heads. But the main attraction in Hampi are the many stone tem...

I'm still in Goa, but in the south on the beautiful beach of Palolem. My boyfriend came a week ago and we took a cab to Palolem from Colva beach. There were local buses as well but we took the smoother alternative with a old charming taxi instead. My boyfriends bag got held up at the airport because he didn't have an address in India. We have been waiting for his bag to arrive for a week and they finally brought it from the airport today. Now we'll book a bus to...

I'm back in Goa again. I arrived two days ago in Margao after a very pleasant train ride. I was in A3 class which means there are 3 beds above each other and it's air conditioned. It's more expensive than the normal sleeper class and I got sheets, a towel and breakfast included and it was totally worth the extra money. I slept fabulously most of the 12 hours it took from Kerala to Goa and arrived nicely rested. Once off the train I sat down to have a look in my ...

Yesterday I said goodbye to Maxi and Nat, as they were going to the east coast and I was headed to Kochi, on the west coast. I got a sleeper bus in the evening and then had to change to a semi sleeper after a few hours. The semi sleeper has seats that you can lean back pretty far and even a foot rest, so I slept quite well. The only downside was that we arrived at about 4.30 am and it was still pitch black in Kochi. I hooked up with a German couple so I didn't n...

I had planned on staying two nights in Kodaikanal and then head back to Munnar to see more of it than just the passing views I had seen, but then I discovered that there were buses directly to Kochi, so I decided to stay one more night and skip going back to Munnar and heading directly to Kochi instead. It was pretty cold up there in the mountains, especially at night, but I didn't mind too much. Both Maxi and Nat got a cold, but I kept healthy and quite enjoyed...