Yesterday (23 Jan) we arrived in Jaipur after a long 6 hour bus ride, where most of us slept. As soon as we arrived the diference to Delhi and Agra was huge. The roads still as crazy (almost) but it is such a colourful vibrant city. It is also known as the Pink City due to part of it being filled with pink buildings. Something which was done years ago to mark the arrival of English royalty (although i have already forgotten who!). We arrived at our hostel which i...

So we made it to India! And what a place to start... Delhi. After causing huge embarrassment to myself and Claire by trying to get my VERY heavy bag (18.6k) off the luggage conveyor belt we ventured outside and immediately overwhelmed by the amount of people. We had our lift arranged and were taken to our hostel by a taxi, OMG that was the most terrifying drive of my life! If anyone saw the recent Top Gear in India then i promise you it is EXACTLY like that!! Abs...

4:30am rise and my first experience on an Indian train to take us from Delhi to Agra. We had seats reserved which was a huge luxury here. Before that we had to enter Delhi train station where a queue of hundreds locals waited to get through the gate, there were also hundreds sleeping on the floor under blankets and i can only assume they are of the many homeless in this country, a hard thing to see. We however had to walk straight past the long queue and go staig...