Our final destination in India after 10.5 weeks travelling India and Nepal was the old Indian capital of Kolkata. We had booked first class travel to see what the difference in classes were and to have a comfortable journey - unfortunately we ended up in a cabin with a older Indian couple who couldn't refrain from staring at us the whole journey. On arrival at Kolkata it was evident that the Brits previously had rule as it was more 'groomed' than any other city ...

Varanasi, well what an experience! We arrived safe and sound despite Helen having a horrible journey due to her cough. Throughout the journey several people approached us as they were concerned. As there was no doctor in the National Park it was a priority to see one in Varanasi. Varanasi...is one of the worlds oldest continually inhabited city and is regarded as one of Hindu's seven holy cities. As we observed, pilgrims come to Varanasi to visit the River Gange...

"Riding the Rails" as they call it was not too bad an experience, our carriage (class 2A - basically means 2nd class but its still 2nd best out of a category list of 7 different classes). Our carriage was fairly clean but we had two pet hates 1) screaming and stamping children and 2) mice scuttling about giving us the fright of our lives! Nevertheless, not enough to put us off! Like they say there's no better place to watch the landscape change from cit...

So, here we are - back in our 'homeland', a place so familiar to us! How we appreciated the welcome, warm weather, strange smells and stares from the locals. It wasn't long before we felt like India's version of Posh and Beck's with the crowds following us and staring at us. We quickly retreated into our comforts as if we had never left, we were back at the same hotel we duly found on Agoda a couple of weeks ago and on arrival we were faced with 'you're back', i...

We were going to find out whether Delhi deserves to be called the capital of India. It's the 'new' capital of India, Kolkata used to be the capital but when India declared their independence from the Brits they shifted their capital. Our coach journey from Agra should have only taken 4 hours but it took 6 hours leaving us both frustrated when we arrived at a bus station outside of the city leaving us dealing with eager tuk tuk drivers which we could have done wi...