Tuesday : fine We were up and ready for our row boat no problems this morning. The streets were much quieter, but people still weren't afraid to use their horns. We shared the boat this morning with four other people, unlike last night where we had it all to ourselves. At the start, the boat was a power boat, so our guide was quiet because we wouldn't of been able to here him over the motor. But then on the return the motor was turned off and we used the curren...

Monday : fine Well it was a quiet train trip, the Japanese ladies were a lot better to share the cabin with than the Vietnamese ladies. I just couldn't get a decent sleep going, maybe because the bed was rock hard. Being tired wasn't the annoying thing, the train being 5hrs late to Varanasi that was. Thankfully we weren't in the over crowded part of the train. We hopped off the train and were approached by this slick looking character. He was a taxi driver, we ...

Sunday : fine The room was great, but was so noisy with all the horns. So after the late night, noisy tractors at 3am then up at 6am I was not feeling great. That didn't matter because today we were off to see the Taj Mahal. We got driven as far as the Indian officials would let us. They have laws saying no petrol cars closer than 1km away, then we have to catch an electric car 700m, then walk the rest of the way to the entry. It's for protecting the taj from ...

Saturday : fine Well judging by that picture we got on a safari. But believe me it wasn't easy. The alarm went off and we followed the plan of getting up and being ready in the lobby by 4.45am and then drive to the ticket office. It was 5.15 by the time we left! Yudhvir slept in, we tried calling his phone three times. We didn't know where his room was, and the reception was closed, so we had to walk through the hotel to try and find him. We did and I got him...

Friday : sunny The sky was much clearer today, pity we weren't at the lookouts. We had a quick early breakfast, then we were on the road again. We stopped off at a temple, where our driver Yudhvir had his morning pray. It was interesting seeing the real deal, people hitting bells praying and going up and getting there Tika (the red dot on the forehead) but Yudhvir's was orange, not sure if it because he's male? We were only there for maybe 10-15 min, we got bac...