Said goodbye to my driver, gave him 600 Ru tip and explained to him when he complained about it that maybe next time he should listen to what the paying customer wants. Happy to be on my own again! Took the train to Jodhpur and met fellow RTW traveler Rika from Japan who is on a one year trip. We were the only foreigners on the train :) In Jodhpur we checked into a nice guest house in old town and had dinner at the rooftop underneath the illuminated citadel. And...

It happened again! This is the 3rd time on this trip that I have to rewrite an entire blog post because that damn TravelPod site keeps losing my draft information. This is also the reason why this will be my first and last travel blog. Next time I'm going back to writing a journal. This is way too annoying. I don't have time for that kind of bulls***! Especially when you have to do it in two languages.Today I first visited Jaipur's City Palace which i...

Night #3 of the 5-Day wedding party next door and obviously "Gangnam Style" is still going strong in India ;) Also, did not get much sleep again. We drove on long and winding roads through places back in time until we reached a semi-famous Monkey Temple, which wasn't worth the time. And finally arrived at the famous City of Jaipur! And what did my driver? First thing he does, driving me to a textile shop. Apparently part of the tour (i never signed up for). S...

What a rip-off! The MonsterWedding (more than 2000 guests) was just about winding down when i got up at 4AM, picked up at 4:30AM and driven to the Tiger Safari sales office. Stood in line until 6:30AM in the freezing cold, got my damn ticket, drove back to the hotel and waited for the Safari Jeep to pick me up. Late, of course, we started our Safari around 10AM and for the next 2 hours saw exactly: Nothing! No tiger, no hyenas, no crocodile, no bear, no nothing! ...

Left the City of Agra in the morning to escape the pollution and be able to take a deep breath for once at the Ranthambhore National Park and Tiger Sanctuary. The ride took us all day due to the poor road conditions, insane traffic and apocalyptic towns we had to drive through. Seriously, I think most people here are living in deeper poverty than rural areas in Cambodia or Indonesia. I saw utterly neglected naked kids playing with fire on landfills which once wer...