We caught the train overnight from Delhi to Bikaner. Leaving Delhi at 10.30pm arriving in Bikaner at 10.30am. Train is a cheap and efficient means of travel in India and even at 10.30pm the trail station was quite full of people. We had a sleeper berth with our carriage having 24 berths. We were they only foreigners in our carriage, the rest being locals. I took the bottom bunk and Laurie the top and after pulling the curtains across both slept pretty well til mo...

Today we had a guided tour of Delhi with Litmus who was a wealth of information but unfortunately most of which I have forgotten already. We saw the contrast of the wide well kept avenues of the parliamentary precinct to the narrow lanes of old Delhi with their menagerie of overhead power-lines. We visited Qutub Minar the 72 meter high tower of victory built in 1193, the memorial for Gandhi and Masjid a mosque in Old Delhi. This mosque is the largest in India...

A free day in Delhi today. Met our World Ex guide Suri this morning who briefed us on our trip. After that we caught tuk tuks (omg the traffic!!) from Connaught Place where we're staying to Humayun's Tomb. 250Rs entry fee was well spent as we wandered around for quite a bit and had lunch in the shade of the gardens outside. Back at Connaught Place we went for a walk around where we're staying at the Radisson Blu Marina. Knowing where we wanted to go (we had a map...

An early start to our day as our flight to India left at 9.10am. A couple of movies and a little snooze later and we were at Singapore airport for around 4hrs. To fill in some time we caught the air train from A2 to A3 and had a walk through the butterfly garden. Another couple of hours and a couple movies later we arrived in Delhi. We were met by a World Ex rep at the airport and driven to our hotel. It was late at night so the streets weren't too chaotic. After...

We were up earlier as we needed to return the hire car and be at the airport by 7am. We woke to the news that the volcanic ash from South America had caused the cancellation of Air New Zealand flight from Hobart to Christchurch. Great we thought, we're going to be stuck in NZ. A quick call to Air NZ though confirmed our flight was still going ahead. Turned out our flight was slightly delayed as the route had to be changed to fly further north and at a lower altit...