14.03.09 We arrived early at our hostel, so had to sleep in the common room until 9.30 a mwhen we could finally check in. The hostel- Pearl Palace- wreally nice- with very clean rooms and a roof top resturant where there was live musicnight. We had a sleep and then went to Janta mantar- which is an observatory with some huge sun dials and star maps carved out of stone. We then saw Hawa mahal- Jaipur's famous Palace wall which was huge and red and intricately car...

09.03.09 We left Udaipur and ahd a 6hour car journey to Jodhpur. The journey was along really hot winding roads and i felt really ill! Luckily we stopped at Ranakpur a really old jain temple in the mountains-so i could get out for a breath of fresh air! The temple was in a really picturesque location and had really intircate architecture which looked lovely- but as is often the case in India- foreigners were not allowed in to the temple before 12.30 - so we culd...

06.03.09 We arrived at 7am and managed t o get a rickshaw from a pre-paid stand which was good as the prices were fixed- so we weren't ripped off for gettin to our hotel. Although we had only worn our backpacks for about half an hour in total it was already a burden-so it was nice to be able to put them down! We were both starting to questio whether we really had needed to bring so many clothes! Udaipur was extremely quiet and green comapred to the other towns w...

My first week in India 23-24/02/09 The first part of mine and Rhiannon's trip went pretty smoothly. Our 8hr flight to New Delhi went without a hitch...apart from not being able to see the last 10minutes of 'Vicky, Christina, Barcelona', which we had chosen to watch as part of our in-flight entertainment and which was switched off by the captain before we could finish it! :( We had pre-booked an airport pick-up to our hotlel in Delhi - Hotel Ajanta and arrived ...