For once we got a chance to sleep in! We headed out of Ranthambore and caught yet another train to the city of Jaiphur. Luckily this train journey was a short 2 hours and not very crowded. We arrived at the train station to yet again chaos. We took auto-rikshaws to the hotel. Talk about crazy traffic. It is hard to believe that anyone actually gets anywhere. The hotel is nice with a garden so it is nice to know there is a reprieve from the craziness. We wa...

Now that the Taj Mahal has been seen it was time to leave Agra. We had prepared ourselves for a 3:30am departure for the train station but in full India style the train was over 5 hours late. Luckily our tour leader was nice enough to let us go back to bed giving us notices every hour as to when the train would arrive. We finally made the train and it was bit better than the last one. Unfortunately we were in a sleeper car and we had top bunks. If you can im...

We started our 3rd day on our tour early to catch the train. Talk about an experience! The India train system is organized chaos. When the train comes you make the best effort to push your way on and find your seat! Once we got going there was the realization that not everyone had a seat or a place for their luggage. People are jammed on like sardines and it isn't like a 10 minute ride. 3 hours later after passing slums, garbage, people using the tracks as ...

We made it! The trip to India went smoothly...no delays, our luggage made it, and our airport transfer showed up. Good start to the trip. The hotel we were supposed to stay in was overbooked so we ended up in a different one. Not the best of hotels, but it was a place to stay and we were really tired after traveling for about 35 hours. Got up in the morning and went to the hotel we were supposed to stay in and it is pretty nice. Tried to go to the bank to t...