Our last day in Pushkar, we were leaving at 7.00pm on a night sleeper bus to Agra. Unfortunately, Pushkar had not been what we expected at all. The plan was to come visit for four days, relax before the final leg of our trip to Agra and Delhi. We had been told that Pushkar was a pretty little town, with nice people. The perfect place to experience an authentic Rajasthan life style, unfortunately this couldn't have been further from the truth. We'd been hassled fr...

We planned on going for a swim in morning in one of the local hotels pools. We headed out nice and early before it got too hot and thought we'd have some breakfast first. Immediately after breakfast and before it was even paid for, Rachael had to run to the loo to be sick, all of a sudden the idea of a swim didn't seem so appealing. After a couple of hours sleep back at the hotel and feeling much better, we decided to try the pool again, it was really nice and...

As we enter our final week in India we woke this morning to find the fan no longer rotating, the power was off again. This has happened every morning for a week. Rachael wasn't feeling too well but we thought it might be best just to grab some breakfast from one of the local cafés. En route we were approached by four begging children who start by asking for money, most hassle is aimed at Rachael as she's a woman. Not having given them any it soon turned into a...

After an early night last night we woke around 07:30 to find hotel staff at our window which didn't go down! This wasn't a good start as we were unconvinced about the place we were staying anyway. It was then made worse by finding we had no water to have a shower! A bit stressed-out over the hotel we decided to have a think over breakfast. We spent the next hour looking around the town for other places to stay. Then we arrived back at the hotel, still no water, a...

We set the alarm for 04:30 as three different people we asked told us three different times of arrival in Jaipur, and we wanted to make sure we were ready to jump off at a moments notice. At 04:50 we arrived and "set up shop" in the waiting room, after some bad planning as we were no longer staying in Jaipur we waited around for our next train to Ajmer in 6 hours. First impressions of Jaipur we as most cities in India seem to be, dirty, cramped, smelly,...