24th-26th April 2012. Varanasi really is the city of many colours! It's noise, excitment and in your face culture-mixed of course with a large amount of cows, flys and dogs in varying different health conditions made Varanasi an incredible place to explore. After a long trip from Pune via Delhi to arrive in Varanasi I was pretty tired and after a taxi ride into town in which I tried SO hard not to fall asleep, I meet up with Bron at the geusthouse. It was reall...

Back in Pune after 3 weeks of travelling, it was such a great feeling! In a way it felt like coming home. Sangam was so quite, only 5 or 6 people still there. But it didn't matter and we were happy to be there for what was going to be only a few days but turned into nearly 2 weeks. Unfortuently we all got sick, don't know if it was the water somewhere or some food or just exhaustion but we all went to the drs and Liv to hospital so our plans to go onto Mumbai cha...

So. Many. Caves!!!! We were here around the 13th-16th April. It was incredible however I do feel as though I've seen enough caves to last me for a good few years!!! Our first night was spent in a silk shop. The fabric was really beautiful and the girls brought some stunning pieces- great gifts but none for me and the shop guy didn't seem too impressed haha typical Charlotte saving her money!!! :D After arriving by bus we found somewhere to stay. After rejecting...

So this post isn't really about the waht, it's more about the how... To keep ourselves entertained on our journey on the advice of the Sangam SV's and Interns (volunteers) we devised 'India Bingo'. It's a very simple game. On the back of a postcard at a bus stop in Goa we wrote down a whole list of things to keep an eye out for on our adventures. Things like 'most interesting thing to find on a motobike' or 'most pimped out rickshaw'. We'd then call it and if a ...

Arriving in Kerala, hot, sticky and tired our top priorities were toliet and food! We found this super cool Indian Coffee House just up the street from the station. It reminded me of a multiystorey swirly car park. I don't know how the waiters managed to carry so much up and down the steep walk way! We managed to find a seat and enjoyed dosas and juice for breakfast. We took a bus to Kollam and stayed in a nice little hotel. After wandering around the streets w...