Poor Kitty Picking the brains of fellow travellers it seemed Rajistan was very popular, many thought it to be the most beautiful region in India, so our plan of action was to travel across Rajistan passing through Jaipur and check out the pink city, Jodhpur to see the blue city, ending up in Jaisalmer, the golden city where you can ride out to the desert on camels and camp over night, but as they say 'the best laid plans go to waste'. We assumed like everywher...

Where Religion Rules Up and out early to find our ticket out of hell, thankfully we managed to get on an early bus to Varanasi. Normally, Ryan and I eat breakfast as soon as our eyes open, but with no cafes on the way and I don't think they even have supermarkets, we were starving and the only food availiable was from grubby street food vendors. We thought eating dirty street food and sitting on a bus without a toilet for 7 hours wasn't a good combination, tho...

Hell On Earth Our journey to the Indian border was a long, frustrating but amusing 8 hour bus ride to Sonauli. Tourist buses don't travel this route for some reason so taking the local bus was our only option. The day of the trip we arrived at our rickety old colourful local bus and went to get in our seats, the bus guy pointed out someone was already in them so either we go and move them or sit at the front next to the driver again. We wimped out and sat at t...