People say that when you get to Delhi, you want to turn around and head straigt back out again....that was exactly true after our 16 hour over night train journey from Varanasi to Delhi! The train wasnt actually to bad, we had a private cabin so all felt safe. The annoying men callling 'chai, chai' eventually stopped, and i put in my earplugs that i pinched off the plane so got a fair nights sleep! So Varanasi...its fairly like Delhi except there were les...

We are actually out of Orchha now, but thought id update you from then up to now....so....We travelled to Orchha by jeep instead of local bus (as planned) as it would cut out 3 hours of the journey!Kallebai,our guide from Chanderi (who reminds me of Rafiki the monkey from the Lion King!) met us to say goodbye and gave us flower garlands and sad 'happy journey!'. He was a really lvely man who invited usto eat with his family, got his daughters to give us h...

Hello!!!!!! Just a quickie to say that we are all cool here, started the tour on sunday and since then we have been to Agra to see the Taj Mahal, a little village called Chanderi and now in a place called Orcha- where we are staying in pretty cushty tents that were better than our hotel!Had a swim and a wonder round today and tomorrow off river rafting and maybe a cookery class!ill write in more setail soon, but had a power curt and running on generater i think ...

After receiving an email from Mum saying i hadnt really mentioned the Taj Mahal i realised that i completely missed that out! So here we go...if i can remember as it feels ages ao now!(and i also have a cool-kid on his laptop next to me playing some annoying 80's hit that repeats the words 'where did you go...my lovely'....ahhhhh!!!) We arrived in Agra at around lunchtime.I had a slight panic as i thought id lost my bag that had my camera and spendi...

After being woken up by lauren as our toilet wouldn't stop flushing(!), we met up with the rest our our group (at the moment only being us 4 and the old aussies!) we trundled off down the road at 8.30 to catch the local bus to Old-Delhi. The bus was an experience! Like ive said already, the driving is crazy and this is no exception with the bus's! Loud indian music blaired out and a man sat at the front of the bus smacking the side....i think this wa...