We arrived at our hotel in Varanasi at 6am after our sleeper train that I forgot to mention in my Agra blog was an adventure to the station. Due to an extreme amount of traffic from a festival and a closed road the two taxis we had had to spped to the staion and then we had to run for our train and didn't have time to grab our bags so these really nice men were running and carrying three at a time and we threw the bags in and all clambered in after them in time t...

Today started with yet another train journey to Agra. We arrived around lunchtime which is not a good time to go and see the Taj Mahal so a few of us decided to visit a ghost town which is about an hours drive away from Agra to a place called Fatephur Sakri. This place was lovely although I'm not sure whether it was worth the drive but it did give us something to do for the afternoon. It was a very long journey back to the hotel so I didn't go out for dinner and ...

Needless to say Jaipur is not my favourite city at all! I arrived still not feeling my best after Pushkar and then went out for dinner in the evening only to be spat on on the way home in a rickshaw. I did manage to do some sightseeing the next day, I went to the Amber fort in the moring which is by far the best fort that I have seen as it was so pretty! I also made it to the Paleace of the winds and did a little bit of jewellery shopping and am now the proud ow...

The first day of Pushkar was fairly uneventfull so I won't bore you with the details of this. The second day started out at 5am, leaving the hotel to climb to the top of a hill / mountain to a special temple (which I can't remember the name of) so that we could see the sunrise. Oh my god this was tough! But I had my platapus to keep me going to the top. I have to say though out of two gap trips that were climing this I was third to get to the top which I think i...

Ok today started with the most uncomfortable and boring 8hour bus journey which meant that we were late in arriving in Udaipur. This meant that we didn't have time to do anything in the afternoon, we only had about 2hours spare which I would've spent in the pool but we weren't brave enough for this one. Instead we sat at the pool side eating a late lunch with the local monkeys : ) In the evening we went into the town centre where our adventures started although ...