Spent the past 3 days in Jaipur. Arrived on Wednesday after a 6 hour train journey from Delhi, which left Old Delhi station at 05:10!!!! Managed to sleep a bit on the train though to make up for the early start!! Jaipur is much like Delhi, only on a much smaller scale. They both have the same 'problems' of mad traffic, beggars, homelessness, street vendors and touts fighting for yor trade, rickshaw drivers wanting your custom etc. But they're much nicer...

Had planned to visit Jaipur for the weekend, but both myself and Rich were violently struck down with the dreaded Delhi belly!!!! So that pretty much put pay to that. Spent all day yesterday feeling pretty awful and just lazed around the appartment all day!!!! Feeling a bit better today (not much mind you), we ventured off to Agra and the majestic Taj Mahal. Had hoped to catch a bit of sleep on the 3.5 hour drive, but Pawan's overenthusiastic horn-honking...

Been in Delhi for five days now, and just about getting over the initial culture shock!!! In fact, the longer I've been here, the more it's grown on me. We've kept Rich's driver, Pawan, pretty busy. He's been ferrying us about and taken us to some of the local tourist spots. But he's happy enough. It's a big deal for him to be seen wandering around with a couple white blokes. It's as if he's showing us off to all the other locals!!! What has surpri...

Having a great time in this mad, mad, mad place where car horns are used more frequently than indicators!!!! Seen some stunning sights so far as well as some pretty sobering ones. If Rich (our host) had not been here to meet us at the airport and very kindly let us crash at his appartment, I think we'd be extremely freaked out by Delhi. It's not a very easy first stop for a green traveller. He has helped us out no end and shown us round his locality -...