We decided to stay in a little town called Laxmanjula which is in an area of Rishikesh. We had a little quarrel with the rickshaw driver as he decided to drop us 7km short of where we'd asked and wanted 100rps more, this didn't go down well with Roger or Steve and a discussion started... this proceeded for about 40 mins with neither side backing down until a friendly Czech man who was unfortunate to share the rick shaw with us (having thought we'd saved him from ...

We couldn't get enough of airports so decided to spend the night in Chennai airport, wasn't so bad we had blankets previously pinched from the Egypt Air flight so the cold was kept at bay. They decided to fumagate the whole terminal a few times during the night to rid the place of the mosquitos, quite a surreal experience seeing a big plume of smoke coming towards you when you're half asleep!! I can't tell you much about the flight to Delhi as we were all getti...

Just a quick one today after my marathon blog sessoin the other day!! Mamallapuram is pretty boring not much to do at all, everything closes by 10pm so we've been good and had many early nights. We've been to a crocodile sanctuary today which we didn't think would be much more then a big pond with a few crocs, pleasently surprised is all i can say!! There were thousands of the snappy creatures and also snakes, turtles and a few fish thorwn in there too. Steve g...

Having now booked our flights to Thailand on 30th November. We decided we still want to get to the North of India to see Delhi, the Taj Mahl and Ganges. Being heavily put off by the prospect of 52+ hours on a train to go from the South of India to the North we're now flying from Chennai to Delhi which does cost a bit more but only takes 2.5-3hrs and gives us more time to see everything we want to. We've just done an 18hr bus to Mamallpuram on the east coast in...

Periyer is one of the largest and most visited reserves in India high up in the tea and cardamom hills. With only 2 days and 2 nights here we booked up for a days trek in the reserve which started with a painful and chilly 5.20am start. Before we reached the reserve we stopped off for a quick drink of cardamom chai (tea) which is delicioius and warmed us up nicely. Once our breakfast of Idlly (squidgy rice cake) coconut saucy stuff, spicy tomato chutney and pinea...