Delhi is the biggest city in India. We've already decided that we aren't the biggest fans of Indian city life so we made this a quick stop. We were there 24 hours. This was a day too long. True, we didn't explore too much, it was a quick overnighter. What we did see was just a filthy, honking polluted mess. We are not in a hurry to return.We did meet up with Vishnu though (tea shop man from Varanasi) for breakfast who was here on a short holiday. This stop in Del...

Wow! Really - Wow! We never expected anything to live up to its own hype as much as this. The Taj Mahal is breathtaking.After Varanasi we, especially David, were feeling a bit disheartened with India. We needed to find something special to make up for it. We honestly didn't think that that something would be a 400 year old building, no matter how famous it was. It was also Claire's birthday in Agra so whilst she didn't get any cards or presents she did get up and...

Ahhhhhhhh, nothing beats sitting down in a nice little cafe, with the sun shining outside, watching the world go by, as you sip a fresh sweet banana lassi...and every 15 minutes you hear a crowd of men chanting their love for god as they carry their newly deceased family members' dead body right past you on the way to set fire to it on the nearby riverbank. This is Varanasi. Burning Ghats. Varanasi is one of, if not the most holiest cities in India. It is said...

Calcutta or now Kolkata.The former capital of British India, Kolkata has an interesting yet quite depressing history. It spent a lot of time as the capital and was an enterprising powerful city until the end of colonial times. Britain shifted the capital to Delhi in 1911 which served as the start of the decline. The worst time for Calcutta though was definitley at the time of India's partition in 1947. The partition created East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and the ...