We arrived in Amritsar from Delhi after an 8 hour train journey. An additional 2 hours were delays as there were protesters on the track. We were all exhausted and went to bed almost immediately. The next day we visited a fabric mill which imported wool from Australia. We watched the whole proceedure from spinning the wool all the way through to the finished product, including the weaving. All the fabrics are shipped to designer houses in London, NY, Milan, etc. We then went on to the border with Pakistan where we watched the closing of the border which is done [View Full Entry]

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From Agra onto New Delhi to our new host family, the Babra's. We have been welcomed open armed as all our host families do. We loved Delhi, all it's madness and hussle and bussle. We visited the equivilant to the Houses of Parliament, India Gate, a Steam Railway museum, and Old Delhi. Our hosts were so lovely - I am sure you will love the photo's of us at their house!!! [View Full Entry]

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We left Udiapur for Agra. The actual city is very busy and very dirty. Not much to see other than the Taj Mahal and yet another palace. We didn't stay to long but were impressed, as I am sure everyone is, with the Taj. [View Full Entry]

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This has to be one of the hidden treasures of India. We took a car journey for a day out of Udaipur to Dungapur. It has a 12 Century Palace which from the outside looks like it is about to fall down, but inside it is the jewel in the crown. It has the original 12 Century wall paintings all over it, as well as mirrored inlay rooms and none of it is roped off to the tourists. Not that there were any tourists there we were the only ones. Dungapore itself is renowned for it's stonemasons and it is set [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Udaipur and stayed in an old hotel. It was quite wonderful with a four poster bed and marble everywhere, we even had our own dressing room as well as marble bathroom. We enjoyed the lake and seeing the Palace where Octopussy was filmed but found the city very touristy and very much built off the back of the film. The prices were inflated and there was not a lot to do there once you had taken a boat ride on the lake. The people were friendly like everywhere you go in India, it just was not our favourite [View Full Entry]

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We left Jaipur by car for a six hour journey to Udaipur. We stopped half way at Ranakpur to see the amazing temple. It has 1444 carved columns of which no two are the same. They are all perfect bar one as they say that only God can be perfect therefore they deliberately made one column wonky. This has to be the most amazing carved temples we saw on our whole trip. James and I had to wear the given outfits, these are not part of our new wardrobe!!! [View Full Entry]

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It was on a day trip in an amazing jeep that we visited a local house where we watched a Opium Ceremony. We went to a local rug weaver, a potter, and the village of the "untouchables" which are the lowest caste system in India. It was a fun day and full of interesting thought provoking places. [View Full Entry]

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Apologies for not putting much text around my previous entries. We have made it around some of Rajasthan as many of you have now seen on our updates to this site. Goa was relaxing and quiet in comparison to Rajasthan. Jaipur was our introduction to the crazy Indian life. Rathambhore National Park was quiet and had amazing scenery. Ajmer was a view into everyday life with our wonderful host family. Pushkar was a crazy hippy market town with the annual Camel and Horse fair which made it even more mad than usual I imagine. Now here are some of our pictures [View Full Entry]

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Ajmer and Pushkar - our next stop [View Full Entry]

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Safari at Rathambhore National Park [View Full Entry]

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