Agra - AKA Taj Mahal So the bus journey to Agra was marginally better than the last, with a sincere lack of goats and emergency toilet stops this time. We got a rickshaw straight to our Hotel Taj Plaza on arrival in Agra, about 1km from the Taj Mahal - we went straight up to the rooftop to get a better view. That evening we succumbed to the temptation of Western food and ordered a chicken Dominos pizza direct to the hotel, much to the amusement of the receptio...

Jaisalmer - Sore bums, no sleep, and goats on a bus Sitting outside the travel agent at 8pm we laughed and breathed a sigh of relief as a parked, beat up old bus that we had thought was ours pulled away....only to be replaced by an equally decrepid tin can. Getting on the bus Joe got into his single berth and we kicked off our hiking boots, laid back and settled down to enjoy the "sleeper" bus journey. Our first mistake was booking seats at the back of the bus...

After feeling a little disappointed with Jaipur we made the decision to move on to Pushkar - a 6 hour bus journey to the East. Our first exeprience of an India bus journey, we realised that stops were frequent, during which street vendors would try and sell you their products through the open bus windows (drive through shopping) - we almost drove off without one man collecting his order of bananas!! We had begun our journey with Julie, a girl from Holland that we...

Escaping Delhi by train Escaping Delhi we made our way to Old Delhi train station to board our first Indian train to Jaipur. The station itself was pretty daunting, the first task was to actually find out which platform the train was to arrive at. After looking at all of the arrival boards we eventually found it scribbled on a random whiteboard (platform 5...wherever that was). On getting to the platform it dawned on us that we were the only Westerners and we st...

Emirates flights were very impressive, probably the hardest part was getting through all the security checks in Heathrow! Trevor had a large amount of electrical items in his bag and had to have it all emptied and searched. This proved slightly embarrassing when a small plastic dinsosaur called 'Brian' was taken out of his bag, which we then had to try and explain in an embarrassed fluster. Note - 100 rupees to 1GBP. Day 1: We were thrown right into the thick ...