ok. i realised i'm going into too much detail. so get ready for the cliff notes. after mandawa we stayed in a mud hut (i say mud hut but it's more like a propper fancy hotel made out of straw, mud and cow poo), were really luck and managed to get a picture of the local women adding an extra coat of dung to the bungalow next to us (was a bit stinky). Went on a camel ride (pretty good fun but very high), we stopped at a camel man's house and had a cup of tea (...

After a 10 hour bus journey we arrived in a place called Mandawa, it\\\'s a little town that has a lot of merchants houses that have been turned into hotels. the architecture is amazing. the houses are incredibly ornate and we had the fortune to spend a couple of nights in one of these hotels. It\\\'s hard to explain what they are like (so i won\\\'t). we had a look around the town and we\\\'re constantly hassled to buy this and that (but we did expect this...

Our first stop is Delhi, on a tour with a company called imaginative travveler. Arrived without a hitch at Delhi (unfortunately we couldn't get upgraded by dropping our mates name on virgin). Were met at the airport and had a prearranged taxi to our hotel (we'd paid upfront for an extra nights stay at the hotel through STA travel, cost us 42 quid when it should really have been about 7 or 8, b*****s). the hotel was pretty nice, air con etc. went out round the b...