Mike: Trip day 1: We left Lake View Lodge at 6:15am to reach the MoAfrika Lodge. After a quick run through of what was going to happen that day as well as a tour of our truck "Rumphi" (all the Acacia trucks were named after African rivers), we packed our stuff into the spacious lockers at the back on the truck (just inside the door), there was only 9 of us and 24 lockers, which luckly afforded us to have a couple of lockers each (Alicia and I had 3 between us)...

Mike Day 1: After a long flight to Johnnesberg, including a long flight from Mumbai to Nairobi then hanging around in the small Kenyan airport for a few hours (the only entertainment was a small TV where we found out about the new pope), then back on another Air Kenya flight to take us down Jo'berg, finally arriving in O R Tambo airport at just gone midday. When we arrived in Jo'berg we collected our lugguage and immediately tried to continue with our quest to...

Alicia: Day 1. We were both so excited about finally reaching Goa. After the craziness of the last night in Delhi I particularly was looking forward to not having to worry about travelling for a while, and being looked after :D We arrived at Dabolim Airport at 5.30pm a tad ahead of schedule and were met by my cousin Ranicia at the baggage belt wearing a red sari (her Air India uniform). Shortly after we met my aunty Segu and uncle Alvaro and whizzed off to Mandu...

Day 3: We finally reached Jaipur at around 11. But it took another 30 or so minutes trying to find the hostel. The taxi driver stopped at a couple of points, got out of the car with my iPhone (I had the address written down) and wandered off to try and ask locals, none of whom knew the hostel but could point us in the direction of the area. Alicia was luckily able to spot a sign post for the hostel and we were able to muddle through and eventually found it hidde...

Mike: Day 4: After getting the train at 5:50 am we expected it to be packed but in fact it was really quiet. It was also freezing! None of the windows either closed or closed properly meaning the very cold night air was rushing against us. When the sun came up we hurried to get ourselves in a position for the sun light. We eventually arrived in Agra at 9 am, a little later than expected (I was hoping to be at the Taj by now). Got a police taxi, another guy got i...