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...

Agra is the home of the Taj Mahal, a spectacular and stunning monument to love. There doesn't seem to be much else to love about Agra, (we did try), but the Taj well and truly made up for minor Agra disasters like bedbugs and overbooked train seats!Our trip to Agra began with a 5 hour bus journey on a local bus to the railhead at Jhansi. It was the sort of trip that had you wanting to close your eyes as the driver swerved to miss cows, people and trucks but y...

We decided that rather than a 15 hour bumpy bus ride to the next place we wanted to visit we would take a flight. Our first impressions of Khajuraho were not good! We had booked a hotel and airport pickup from our previous hotel and whilst there was a man to pick us up a massive argument amongst taxi drivers broke out with us in the middle. Apparently the driver who was picking us up did not belong to the taxi drivers union. We sought help from a policeman who sa...

 Varanasi's main attraction for visitors are the gnats on the mighty and sacred Ganges. The gnats are ancient steps down into the water and provide an amazing spectacle of colour and humanity as Indians gather on the steps to bathe, pray and cremate their dead. To die in Varanasi and be cremated there is the ultimate for Hindus who believe that having the Ganges as their final resting place breaks the cycle of reincarnation.After a rather tiring trip on the ...