We were told to avoid Rajasthan due to the climate. In April temperatures can reach 50 plus and many of the locals were heading north to escape the relentless heat…... We decided to ignore this advice. We'd just spent the summer months in the Australian bush on pig farms and fruit sheds, we'd be fine, and actually we were. Ok it was hot, but not aussie, no O Zone layer, sear you skin hot. We were briefly worried when our plane landed and the captain announced...

The most emmotinally draining, though provoking amd tear jurking place i have ever visited. Potentially the most influential place i have been in terms of really challenging your own perceptions of poverty, misfortune and human decency. Individuals living in central divisions in the road, people living on roadabouts, three generations of a family living under bridges. Babies hanging from material attached to lamp posts, parents sorting through mountains of rubb...

Like always, the bus journey was a total joy. so much infact that we thought that this most recent journey was so much fun that we will leave bus journeys for a while and look into other ways of travelling.... The trains would have been great, but they are all currently booked up for the next 6 weeks as it is Indian school holidays, so thats that idea out of the window! Arriving in Goa was a relief, but the hot and humid weather made it quite uncomfortable to ...

So Chennai was a really busy, smelly and manic city, totally not designed for tourism or westerners. Very unlike the other Asian cities we have visited so far, which seemed like they were being equipt with all the western aminities and luxuries necessary to lure in the holiday crowds.... The bus journey to Bangalore however, was very much like the other bus journies we have taken in Asia.... Buses stopping at the side of the road for 4 hours for no apparent re...

Looking out of the aeroplane and pearing down onto the city of Madras, made me wonder.... where on earth is there room for a plane to land?? The city was dense and vast, as far as you could make out the smog smoothered the skyline of a hugely active and highly populated city. Heaps of dust piled onto every corner of every building and a kind of haziness to the air which you could almost smell from 15,000 ft up! From the minute we got out of passport patrol, th...