GOA HEAVENEST GOA!!!!! (As the T-Shirts state)We had a lovely train journey from Hospet to Margoe,Goa. As per India time it arrived 3 hours late. We were tahnkfully with a british family on our berth. We also had to put up with 2 annoying begger kids, they tried every trick in the book to get food and money from us. The train went through some stunning tree covered hills and past the 2nd highest waterfall in India. The train took a painstaking 9 hours to complete...

We arrived in Hospet alot earlier than we expected on the overnight bus from Hyderabad. We got an autorickshaw to take us to Hampi. The drive there was lovely, it was early morning so it was nice and cool, there were big palm trees, sugarcane fields and paddy fields-lovely. When we got to Hampi we checked out some rooms and settled on one, the boy who was in charge looked like the artful dodger from Oliver! We had to sign in at the local police station, Hampi is...

The main reason for our leg to Hyderabad was to look into my family heritage (Mum and Granddad) My mum spent part of her child hood here and my granddad (Qasim Razvi) was a very powerful man who was good friends with Osman Ali Khan(7th nizam). Well I had a romantic dream of this city, one that saw cleanliness, greenery and extreamly friendly people. This is how my mum had described her childhood.  We arrived on a very late train into Securabad Railway station...

We got to Aurungabad after a 13 hour overnight bus trip, I (Ellie) was the only female on the bus and was gawped at all night (great). After a long search for a decent room we found one in the Arts Executive Hotel which was a bit above our budget but we were so knackered we went for it. After a well needed shower we thought we would just pop out to buy our ongoing train ticket to Hyderabad. The train reservation place was hectic and we had to get in a queue for f...

Well we made it to Indore!!!!We had a 13 hour overnight bus journey from Udaipur and after initial worries it was A.OK. I think Ellie was worried because it wasn't exactly a palace on wheels but it was a rust bucket. We boarded and found we had our own fish tank as a bed. We managed to cram all our travel gear and still have ample room to sleep. Late at night we had an incident where our coach had a blow-out(puncture). It took for ages to change and we could ...