Today was Christmas day and it was nothing like Christmas at all!! In fact instead of Christmas dinner we had a curry!! We arrived here in a place called Arambol (which is northern Goa), two days ago after travelling up with a girl we met in Gokarna called Alyssa.It took around 4 hours to get here by train, taxi and then a bus.When we finally arrived, Alyssa had a friend already staying here so we left our bags with then whilst we set about looking for accommodat...

Oh my god, the bus journey here was a nightmare!After getting off of the Bangalore bus last minute, we had to catch another 3 bloody uncomfortable buses to get to Gokarna, followed by a rickshaw (as there are no buses) to get to where we're staying - Om Beach.It was worth it though - it's amazing here.It's completely secluded, all of the accommodation is just little huts made from weaved palm leaves with nothing in them but a bed, mosquito net and a fan, they'r...

So after another over night bus we arrived in Hampi at around 7am.After speaking to a lot of travellers in India, everyone says you must see Hampi as it has the most amazing scenery so here we are... and it really is unbelievable!It's nothing like the rest of India, it's a bit like the Flintstones - there are huge orange boulders and stones piled up everywhere and its all natural, we have no idea how they got there, they look so strategically placed - the local...

We arrived this morning at Bangalore bus station at around about 6.30am after our 10hour bus journey from Chinnar.We stepped off the bus to the usual gaggle of rickshaw drivers wanting to take you to some accommodation (for which you'll pay a higher room rate to cover their commission!), so we managed to barter one down and get a lift to the main area in Bangalore, M.G Road (with no intention to take his room!).From here we walked for the next 2 hours trying to...

So after another 3 hour bus journey we arrived at Chinnar wildlife sanctuary around 12pm.Our trek wasn't due to start until 2.30pm so we filled the time by doing one of our favourite things... eating!So 2.15pm came and our non English speakingguide (Shibu) came over armed with just a stick which was quite worrying as the sanctuary we are trekking through is home to Tigers, Leopards, Elephants etc etc!! As you can imagine Laura started with the nonstop questions...