At 6AM on Sunday morning we started our long drive to Varanasi. Once we joined the main road we saw our first accident, not just a bump. A lorry had smashed in to the back of another, the cab was crushed like a coke can and the windscreen lay on the road in front. We were on this road for about ten hours and we saw at least five different crashes. Inder said these would of all been in the night but no one seems to clear the vehicles away. They all looked rather s...

Today we drove to Agra, the home of the Taj Mahal. On the way Inder stopped at the side of the road, lit a handful of incense sticks and started waving them around. We nearly choked but he got out and stuck them in the ground and said a prayer. We thought he may be praying to his Angels he had previously told us about, we were also a little worried he might be praying that the car would get us there. Thankfully it did. We arrived in Agra and it lived up to its...

Change of plan, we decided to head to Ranthambore for a tiger safari. Once we checked in to our hotel we asked to buy tickets for the safari. We were told the system had changed and to get tickets for the morning safari we would have to go to the ticket office at 4am. We weren't over the moon about this but we were keen to go. So we set our alarm for 3.45am and we headed down to the ticket office with our driver, and got in a queue. We teamed up with some other g...

From Udaipur we travelled north to Jaipur, stopping off at Pushka on the way. Pushka was a small place, and like Udaipur it is set by a lake. It was rather quaint but very busy as there was a camel fair which they have every year. We then arrived at our hotel in Jaipur. We were rather excited as they told us we had hot water 24 hours a day, this was a real treat. At our previous hotel we asked what time the hot water was on. We were told it was on in the mornin...

We arrived in Udaipur on Saturday afternoon. On the way we stopped off at Ranakpur to see the Jain Temple which sits in the mountains. This is the largest Jain Temple in India and was rather impressive. Pete had to borrow a very fashionable pair of trousers as he was wearing shorts which weren't allowed. We then made our way to Udaipur. The roads were pretty crazy as was Inder, our driver. The road had a shear drop on one side; the only thing between us and a...