This morning, we took the hotel's car and went to Chennai's newly opened domestic airport (it was actually opened today!). :) We then took a one-hour flight to Bangalore, and took our prepaid taxi for a 90-minute drive to our hotel. Of course we were upgraded to a suite (despite the hotel being a novotel, where upgrades are scares. We then took our taxi to town, to see the main governmental buildings, a local park, a nice church (there was a wedding there when we...

After an only so-so night sleep (rock hard bed, furniture constantly being moved in the restaurant over our suite), we had a decent breakfast and hired a taxi for 6 hours, to take us around Chennai. Little did we know, that our driver was obviously not local, thus we had to direct him EVERYWHERE. It was so surreal - the two of us, giving our taxi driver directions in downtown Chennai. :) Today was VERY hot (38 degrees) and humid (90%) day,and we sweated like neve...

Last night was rather unbareable. The hotel was holding a party to the local Cricket team and the techno bass noise pounded through our room until 5AM, despite us complaining about it. Today was all about flights, though. We got up at 8:45, had a quick breakfast and shower and headed to the domestic airport with a complimentary hotel car. Our flight from Jaipur to New Delhi took less than half an hour and then we were rushed to the international terminal to get ...

We had a great day in Jaipur today, despite the 38 degrees blistering heat. We booked a driver for 6 hours and he took us everywhere, which was great, as our hotel was pretty far from all the attractions. We started with the wonderful Jantar Mantar, which is a gigantic observatory (which I first saw in "The Amazing Race"). A lot of locals were excited to getting a photo with us, which is always funny to us. :) We then went al the way up the mountain to Amber Fort...

This morning, just prior to checking out and leaving Agra, we did the obligatory visit to Taj Mahal, together with our "volunteer" guide. Well, what can I say, while the site IS beautiful, the nearer you get to it, the more underwhelming it becomes. The inside tomb is not well lit, overcrowded and not that interesting. 90 minutes did the trick for us and we left the site, check out the horrible hotel and started our 4-hour ride to Jaipur, arriving at about 7PM, g...