We arrived in Varanasi earlier than expected as we cut the sailing down the Ganges a little shorter. Varanasi on first impression seems really noisy, like most cities in this country. We were taken out to walk along ghats, nearly all 90 of them. They were very busy and there were plenty of cows to dodge too. This is the last place we visit in India before going over to the border into Nepal, but it will be nice to not have to avoid all the different types of s*...

Unfortunately I had written a blog for Orccha but I had to delete the app as it was crashing,typically it hadn't saved anything so I'm a bit annoyed about that one. Orccha seems a nice little place,a lot less busier than Agra or Delhi. The accommodation was permanent tents set in a quiet nice garden. The tents were ok, although the canvas above the shower was covered in black mould so I'm sure that won't be good for the chest. The first place we explored was...

A 5am start to catch a train from Delhi I Agra, home of the Taj Mahal, which I'm hoping will be a highlight of the trip. Delhi train station was a bit shoddy, the entrance was lines with beggars sleeping under sheets. The platform had a strong smell of piss and as the train pulled in the aerosols created only made it worse. The train was luckily odour free although it followed in the same decor as Delhi train station. The journey was quite quick, the trains are a...

I arrived in Delhi airport to complete chaos, the queue for showing your Ebola paperwork to state which countries you had traveled from was the main culprit. A massive stampede with no organisation whatsoever, to be honest I don't think the people behind the desk were really that bothered, you could have been bleeding from every orifice and they wouldn't have noticed. Passport control had a slightly different approach with a totally carefree attitude. I guy came...