DAY 53 - CHITWAN (SAURAHA) After two days of rafting, we felt that we deserved a day of rest, so resolved to spend our first full day in Chitwan relaxing and enjoying its calm and serene atmosphere. After a nice breakfast at our guest house and a while spent reclining on our room's porch, we gathered a few books and strolled down towards Sauraha, the local town. We spent most of the day on a stretch of chairs and tables opposite the river that separated the town...

DAY 49 - KATHMANDU Greetings from Delhi. It's been a while since I posted an entry, owing to Nepal's constant power cuts and our busy schedule within the country, but I've decided to try and catch up before I fly out to Bankok late tomorrow. I say we had a busy schedule in Nepal, but we did allow ourselves a couple of days to rest in between. Day 49 was one such day, and we spent the majority of it ambling the shopping districts surrounding Thamel, thumbing thro...

DAY 33 - RISHIKESH Our train journey passed with ease and we both managed to get some sleep after the knackering day before. We arrived at Haridwar station at around 7am and caught a bus from the nearby bus stand on to Rishikesh itself. Although pretty enjoyable, the ride was very bumpy and I'd be surprised to learn if the vehicle had any suspension at all - at one point we were thrown a good foot off our seats as we hit a particularly rocky part of the road. Upo...

DAY 32 - MCLEOD GANJ/AMRITSAR Our 32nd day travelling was to be a pretty intense one - a one day stop off in Amritsar, designed to allow us to see what we wanted to see in the city whilst also saving us precious time in moving straight on to our next location via an overnight train the same day. It all started off pretty badly for a couple of reasons. Firstly, upon gathering our things at 4 in the morning in order to meet our taxi driver who was scheduled to mee...

DAY 29 - MCLEOD GANJ, DHARAMSALA We arose at our now habitually later time (a result of the more relaxed atmosphere, we have decided) and had a hearty full English style breakfast at a chilled out backpacker cafe called 'Carpe Diem', boasting a popular roof terrace with floor cushions and interesting paintings on the walls (including, bizarrely, one depicting a scene from 'Alice in Wonderland' and another showing a couple of hindu gods in coital union), along wi...