Varkala We arrived in Varkala after a rather stressful bus journey and a further stressful scamming tuk tuk driver. We decided to head to a hostel in our bibles only to find that it was closed. Luckily the one across the road was open, and for a mere £1.75 each we headed to our fanned rooms to relax. Varkela was the time we had been looking forward to. Sun, sea and endless stretches of quiet sand made for a lovely 10 day retreat from the hustle and bustle of ...

21st march. kochi. After a 3 hour flight from Delhi, we arrived to the palm tree surrounded airport. We expected, as with all of our port of arrivals for thousands of tuk tuk drivers to be shouting for us to go with them. There was none of this. It was amazing! Maybe the south is as chilled as they say! We made our way to the bus stop and caught the local bus to Fort Kochi. 45 rupees for a 2 hour journey. We arrived in Fort kochi rather sweaty, its very humid d...

Another delay and a very moody Walton, I was kept awake by the bear like snoring of the man next to us. Selfish. On more than one occasion I threw things at him to wake him up, including his water bottle to try and stop the constant drowning sound that prevented my sleep, it did'nt work. Khajuraho train station has the most tuk tuk drivers you could imagine, all peering into the train trying to find the tourists. We hadn't even stepped off the train before they w...

So the 17 hour train journey turned into a 20 hour train journey and we began to wonder if our necks would stay in the sidewards postion forever. We finally arrived in Varanassi at 11am and jumed in a tuk tuk to take us to our hotel. Its now become a game that we lay with tuk tuk drivers, we choose the quiet guy at the back of the group of gaggling men, all pushing and shoving to be able to escort us. This tuk tuk ride was another one spent with our eyes closed a...

Pushkar and Jaipur We took the train from Udaipur to Pushkar, well actually Ajmer. Our first impressions of Ajmer were thank god we aren't staying here it looked crazy. The 5 hour train was in CC, chair only and the hours flew! 5 hours is nothing to us now. Our first day in Pushkar, so we headed out to explore. Our friend and saviour Bobby was in town with his small tour group so we met him in a nearby cafe. His tour group consisted of 3 men in their 50...