Off we went to the town of Agra, for the wondrous Taj Mahal. Our journey from Jaipur was trouble free however we soon found out that our top choice of hotels in Agra were fully booked. Had we been naive to think that hotels surrounding one of the worlds most beautiful building would be available. Our persistence did pay off and we found a room which was ok by our standards and it was only 50-100 metres away from the Taj's eastern gate. Right, the story behind t...

The capital of Rajasthan, Jaipur was our next destination. Jaipur is named after its founder, Jai Singh a former Maharaja who came to power at the age of 11. Jaipur is also known as the Pink City, surprisingly enough England had an influence on the name as the city was painted pink to welcome the then Prince of Wales, Edward VII in 1876. It was clear driving through that Jaipur has colourful and chaotic streets but it didn't look very pink. We arrived at the bus...

Next on the travel agenda was Pushkar, the legend of the town is that Brahma (the 4 headed Hindu god) laid a lotus flower and the surrounding land evolved into a lake. The result is that Pushkar is the pilgrimage place for devout Hindus, a bit like Mecca. Pushkar lake has 52 ghats where they can bathe in the 'holy' water and we saw loads of families with disabled people going to bathe. On the bus from Ajmer we met a family with an elderly deaf man who couldn't ...

After passing through to Jodhpur on the way to Jaisalmer from Udaipur, Helen was adamant that we were not staying there but Nick wanted to so after Jaisalmer we made a one night stop in Jodhpur. Jodhpur is known as the Blue City and is famous for its mighty Mehrangarh, a muscular fort towering over the city. We got a early morning bus from after watching the sun rise from our hotel roof top so we were in Jodhpur for lunchtime, on arrival we got a tuktuk to shop ...

Continuing from our last blog; We did however eventually arrive in Jaisalmer in one piece, only to find that our hotel (Mystic hotel) had given away our room as we didn't arrive at the scheduled time! After much arguing with the hotel manager and threatening to look elsewhere he gave us a upgrade for a cheaper price. We have no idea how they got top ratings on trip advisor. Jaisalmer is known as the Golden City as its like a massive sandcastle from the distance....