Been to visit the temple of the Dalai Lama and saw all the Buddhist monks and nuns practice the art of happiness. They would work in pairs and one would try to anger the other whilst the other had to keep calm and not become angry. It was very comical to watch - many of the monks were laughing too. A visit to the museum of Tibet was also organised which gave you a lot of information about the struggle Tibet is going through to gain the freedom to be themselves. T...

Had a 2 and a half hour transfer from the train to the hotel. Stopped off first for breakfast which was jam toasts and chapati bread with potato inside and lime-pickle!! I LOVE lime-pickle....so curry for breakfast it was! The bus journey to the hotel was amazing. There were cow lay down in the middle of the road - india's sacred animal - so the cars and bikes were swerving road them as the cows just relaxed totally oblivious!! We also saw lots of monkeys running...

Never experiences anything like this train before. Small cramped bunk beds on each side of the train and a toilet thy smells like hell. 12 hours on this train is going to be hell. Boarded train at half 7pm & it left the station at half 8pm. Managed to fall asleep with help of my extra pillow, eye shades & earplugs at around 9pm and woke up on and off through-out the night due to the smelly locals and their snoring and walking up and down the corridors. 5h...

Visited a mosque today. Had to take off my shoes and wear a bright orange cotton wrap around before I went in. They also charged you for taking your camera in, so i strategically hid mine in my pocket and pretended I didn't have one - cos I'm saving my money to buy an elephant :)) After the mosque we had a rush-kart experience. The rush-kart was a little enclosed bench on top of a bicycle rode by one of the local Indian men. It was very fast and very scary. If yo...

Just checked in at the Johti Mahal hotel for a freshen up. A half hour journey from the airport actually took an hour which was rather scary travelling in a small rickety bus speeding through the bustling street of Delhi! Remembered to take my malaria tablets however for some reason they make me feel really sick after iv taken them and had to have a quick dash to the loo to throw up :'( feeling much better now however I wanted to cry as my stomach felt so gippy. ...