We went back to Delhi for two days to catch up on some rest before moving onto Bangkok and new adventures.Our train trip back to Delhi was not without incident. We arrived to our much awaited "romantic" sleeper carriage. How nice to be just us travelling through the night. Wrong! Our carriage had 2 Indian men already setting themselves up. We went to find the stationmaster or anybody to help. The list outside of our carriage only had our names.We had paid for 4 b...

Our 13 hour trip to Udaipur was quite an adventure.Our first 6 hour bus was a local one which stopped all along the way, picking up and dropping off and carrying various commodities (no chickens though!). We were the only westerners on this and the later bus we took. The roads in India are quite rough and busy with traffic and stray animals and the bus drivers spend the whole time tooting their horns, swerving and yelling. The buses have lousy suspension too! The...

 There was madness at the bus station when we arrived in Jaisalmer.Auto rickshaw drivers were making a real din clamoring for our business and trying to drag us off the bus. One of them tried to manhandle our luggage from the rear of the bus until Avan spotted him and yanked him off by the collar. There was only 2 other Westerners on the bus, a German couple, and they had a vehicle from a hotel pick them up and so we went with them to that hotel.It turned out t...

Jodhpur is a beautiful blue city. Well from a distance it is gorgeous blue. From our hostel roof top restaurant it is gorgeous blue but down at street level it is all dirt, choking dust, pollution, discordant noises and horrendous smells.  Six and a half hours on a quite comfortable bus and we arrived in Jodhpur. We took an auto rickshaw straight to the train station to see about booking our final journey the following week, back to Delhi from Udaipur. The trai...

Those holy cows all look so gentle and unassuming. Well they are not!Because we didn't take our planned overnight train to Jodhpur, it was not possible for us to go all the way through in one trip, so we broke the journey at Jaipur, the capital of the state of Rajasthan. We found some very cheap accommodation for the night near to the bus station for our early morning trip the next day. It wasn't until we went to bed that we realized why the room had bee...