Oh my God, didn't think it could get any worse! Arrived in Mumbai approx 23.30, we pre-paid a taxi for Rs160 in the airport and walked outside to be mobbed by taxi drivers! They were trying to snatch our ticket and all gathering round shouting at each other and trying to get us to go with them, it was horrible! Eventually got in a taxi with a driver that couldn't speak English and who didn't have a bloody clue where he was going! He drove us into a massive slum a...

Overnight stay at Ginger Hotels, nice hotel, shame it was in Mangalore, what a dump! Managed to find an internet cafe and we booked the next flight out to Mumbai, at least we're closer to the airport!

Well hello there again people, here we are back on the blog, this time in Kochi, Southern India, looking for a little respite after the (mostly) hecticness of touring the Northern/Central cities. We caught a (relatively, 3 hours!) short flight from Udaipur airport, and landed at Kochi to find it noticeably different in air temperature and humidity, and more importantly no smog/fumes as we had been used to by now in most places, which was nice! After going through...

We've hit Paradise!! After the last few days this place is clean and there's FRESH AIR! Arrived in Udaipur approx 07.00, we were picked up by Anwar and taken to Khumba Palace Hotel. The hotel is owned by Francine and Danesh and is on a hill with the Palace behind it and compared to the last few hotels it's beautiful. Not much noise from the street and there's a lovely garden with a fountain and a brilliant view. On arrival we were greeted by the hotel dog, Roxy, ...

Arrived in Agra after a horrific night in AC3, god Indian people can be so loud and inconsiderate! Agra is busy, dusty and dirty and there's monkey's EVERYWHERE but we're used to that now. Because we'd changed our plans we were no longer stopping over, we had to lock our rucksacks in the lockers at the station for Rs20. We got a taxi to the Taj Mahal after being hassled to do a full tour, how many ways of saying 'no' is there?! It was just after sunrise so not th...