Unfortunately I had written a blog for Orccha but I had to delete the app as it was crashing,typically it hadn't saved anything so I'm a bit annoyed about that one. Orccha seems a nice little place,a lot less busier than Agra or Delhi. The accommodation was permanent tents set in a quiet nice garden. The tents were ok, although the canvas above the shower was covered in black mould so I'm sure that won't be good for the chest. The first place we explored was...

A 5am start to catch a train from Delhi I Agra, home of the Taj Mahal, which I'm hoping will be a highlight of the trip. Delhi train station was a bit shoddy, the entrance was lines with beggars sleeping under sheets. The platform had a strong smell of piss and as the train pulled in the aerosols created only made it worse. The train was luckily odour free although it followed in the same decor as Delhi train station. The journey was quite quick, the trains are a...

I arrived in Delhi airport to complete chaos, the queue for showing your Ebola paperwork to state which countries you had traveled from was the main culprit. A massive stampede with no organisation whatsoever, to be honest I don't think the people behind the desk were really that bothered, you could have been bleeding from every orifice and they wouldn't have noticed. Passport control had a slightly different approach with a totally carefree attitude. I guy came...

Another 8:30 start as we left Kalaw to head towards inle lake. On the way we stopped off at Shwe Oo Min natural cave pagoda. The pagoda is situated inside a cave on a cliff face in the Myanmar hills and requires walking plenty of steps before getting a quite a decrepid elevator for the final bit. The cave contains over 8700 Buddha images of all difference shapes and sizes. Upon entering the temple complex I was stopped for the compulsory family photo with a Burme...

We left Mandalay around 8ish by bus to Kalaw an 8 hour trip away. There was several stops along the way with the first being U Bein Bridge, just outside of Mandalay. The bridge spans 1300 yards across Taungthaman Lake and isn't really fit for vehicles but you can walk across it and watch the numerous fishing boats below throwing their nets out to catch fish for the nearby markets. The trip to Kalaw went through lots of rural Myanmar before taking the windy road...