We saw it and we got the photo!The Taj was breathtaking. It very much lived up to expectations and I am thrilled that I've been able to witness its beauty. We even had a good view of the Taj from our hotel bedroom. Agra itself is terrible, with the most vicious of street hawkers we'd encountered so far. It's a shame, as lots of what they were trying to sell was really beautiful. We just ended up feeling cross a lot of the time. Most disturbing were th...

We were looking forward to escaping the hustle and bustle of the overcrowded cities to a more relaxed pace of life in Kerala. I was particuarly looking forward to hiring a houseboat along the backwaters, after having seen them on a travel show when I was about 12! We nearly didn't make it onto the aeroplane after we went to the wrong terminal, 30mins away from the correct one.Kerala was much more peaceful but unfortunately, the monsoon was much more apparent ...

Getting to Udaipur was a nightmare. We turned up at Jodhpur airport for our Kingfisher flight to Udaipur to be told that the airline had stopped flying to Udaipur and consequently, our plane did not exist! A taxi driver offered to drive us for around £60, but Bill wasn't prepared to spend more of my precious money on luxury, so we took the tuktuk to the train station, no luck, and then to the bus station. We got a ticket for the next bus to Udaipur (5hrs) Wh...

We felt filthy and exhausted after the sleeper bus from Jaipur. Hair and bodily cleanliness was beyond repair. I was even considering changing into a sari, at least that would cover everything up! The Durag Niwas Guesthouse were very welcoming and kindly let us rest on their sofas when we appeared half alive at their doorstep at 5 in the morning. The rooms were beautiful. The hotel was full of French volunteering in the attached NGO teaching English! They lived u...