The Golden Temple Amritsar. John and I visited this spectacular temple and watched the ceremony of the "Book" which takes place each evening and each morning.

We have just spent the last 10 days in Mumbai and have done our best to see the sights. We went on a city tour which took us to the open air laundry, a Jain temple, the Hanging gardens and the towers of silence. We also visited the Gateway to India several times and it was from there we took a boat across to Elephanta Island to see the Hindu caves there with all their carvings. The monkeys there are tenacious beasts and one male went for our guide, so she threw...

After leaving Varanasi we went on by train to Umaria. Unfortunately the train was 4 and a half hours late so instead of arriving at 10.15pm we arrived in the small hours and had a further hour by car to the Tigers Den resort in Bandhavgarh where we spent 2 and a bit nights. We could have stayed up and gone on the safai at 5am but we were too tired. However the next two days we made up for it by seeing 5 tigers and a python devouring an Indian Roller. We then ha...

After a few days in the much cooler Darjeeling we have now moved on to Varanasi. We had splendid views of the Himalaya but did not manage to see Everest as there is only one view point from Tiger Hill and the mist didn't clear for us, but we have now seen the worlds second highest mountain. We saw quite a few endangered species in the zoo in Darjeeling including red pandas. Varanasi is the spiritual home of the Hindu religion although it is also close to the pla...

We have just spent a very hectic few days here, our primary aim was to see the Rotary eye project which gave us a very busy but enjoyable schedule. Our hosts gave us a very warm welcome and we were amazed by how much hard work they do. They are a truly dedicated group of Rotarians with Service Above Self being very much their ethos. We spent our third day on a tour of this great city and had a very good guide who showed us many aspects of the life here. We saw...