After a long bus journey we finally arrived in Trivandrum

We finally arrived at the Bus station of Alappuzha.

We flew into Goa via Mumbai

On the 3/10/2011 we were met at 5.00am at the railwaystation by a representative of the Singhvi's Havali, guest house. He hussled us into a toot toot and gave directions to our driver were to go. We wove around the narrow streets of the old town of Jodhpur. It was early morning but it was alread warm. We went though the large accommodation gate into a courtyard, with one of the staff asleep next to the fountain. We arrived with no sight of any on-duty staff, fina...

Early exit out of Agra catching the 5.10am train to Jaipur, Rajasthan; with great relief our pre arranged taxi was waiting for us at 4.00am to take us onto the Agra Fort Station. The train journey was very pleasant in comfortable upright padded seats, looking out of the windows we went past farms with old fashioned ploughs, people working in the fields, small towns, the usual slum dwellings pushed up against the railway tracks, children off to school in their un...