Dominic Travels The World

Mum and I left Mumbai after several hours catching a train to Bangalore and then to Mysore. In Mysore we visit the city Palace, the Palace was very big, but we werent allowed to take pictures inside. It was coolest at night time when the lights were on. When we were in Mysore we also took a horse and cart ride, I was allowed to steer like the camel. After Mysore we caught a bus to Kerala, where we met Jonathan, we all caught a rickshaw to the beech, it was a good day, I got very sunburnt though. I played in the beech for a long time, Mum and Jonathan even got in for a bit.... read more

Today Mum and I arrived by overnight train from Jodphur to Mumbai. When we arrived in Mumbai we were with a french lady, while we were organising our tickets at central station, the French lady recieved a message on her phone to say there had been bombings in Mumbai, we then spoke to some other tourists that told us about the terror attacks, with one large attack happening less than 12hours before at the very same station that we were then at, there had been blasts and shootings, we saw how the guns bullets shot the windows in a cafe at the train station, and it was all shut down, a few places only were open. In Mumbai everything was almost closed, we found a cyber cafe where we stayed for a little while and rang ... read more

We caught an overnight train with our American friend, Jonathan to Agra on November 16th, arriving on the 17th. When we were in Agra we saw the Taj Mahal, we got up early in the morning to visit the Taj Mahal, in the afternoon we caught a train to Dehli, the capital city of India. In Dehli we saw one of Mum's friends who was visiting his family in Dehli, he drove us around to show us the sights of Dehli, including the lotus temple, the gateway of India and a few other sights. When we were in Dehli Mum let me have McDonalds, it is different than Australia as there is only chicken or vegetable items on the menu, there was new shake, shake fries, and the happy meals only had chicken burgers.... read more

We caught a bus on the 11th of November to Chitwan Nation Park, while we were there we did a few activities. It was a bit like school camp, we stayed in a resort where we had a timetable of activities, including our eating times, where every one at the same thing. One activity we did was an elephant safari in the National Park, we saw birds, monkeys, rhinos, deer, and crocodiles, crossing the river. We also did a canoe trip down the river, there was two sorts of crocodiles, there was the long nose and the marsh mugger, the marsh mugger would eat anything, and the long nose was a vegetarian. We saw a few crocodiles on our trip. We also visit the elephant breeding centre, where there was lots of elephants and their babies, ... read more

Yesterday Mum and I arrived in Kathmandu, we saw the mountains as we were flying here. There is lots of people here, and cows on the streets. Mum and I walked around yesterday and visit Durbar Square. Today we had a tour, we went to a few temples, and to Patan to see Patan's Durbar square, I liked it better than Durbar Square in Kathmandu. We went to a temple up above Kathmandu it is best known as the Monkey Temple, I saw lots of monkeys, and Mum was scared. One of the monkeys was going to attack Mum when she tried to take a picture.... read more

Today is my last day at school, before Mum and I leave for Asia, we are going to Singapore tomorrow and we are going to Nepal on Monday, I am excited, I have my first back pack so I am a real backpacker now. Mum packed my bag weeks ago. ... read more