Hey Guys! Well another tearful goodbye to the Sheraton behind us and we're in Agra, which is where the Taj Mahal is. We almost never made it as we ended up traveling by train from Jaipur to Agra and it wasn't until we were on the train did we realize that we had actually bought wait listed tickets for the sleeper class instead of the 2nd class seating. It all worked out fine (after trying to kick the 2 guys out of what we thought were our seats), but could have been disastrous if they actually checked the ticket. Our time [View Full Entry]

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Hey Guys, Well this blog is going to be two parts since we're bundling Ajmer and Jaipur together. AJMER: So we decided we would try taking a private bus line to Ajmer instead of the public buses since we were looking at a somewhat long trip from Udaipur to Ajmer. The bus was a little nicer, a little quicker but they kicked us out on the side of the highway when we got to Ajmer so it kinda sucked! In Ajmer, we were originally only going to pass through and visit Pushkar instead (neighbouring city) but since we had met a [View Full Entry]

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Hey Guys! Well I don't know how we survived our bus trip from Mt. Abu to Udaipur but we did. When we arrived at the bus station in the morning the driver was changing the rear tire on the bus since it had a huge blow out. OK I thought this is good, until he grabs the spare to put on and it has a hole in it too! So we head down the winding Mt. road at top speed with a shot tire on the rear and I declare to Tyne that we are idiots for getting on this damn [View Full Entry]

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Hey Guys, Well we survived a nice Indian bus ride all the way to the top of Mt. Abu! It actually wasn't that bad although we were a little leary at first looking at the side of the bus and seeing nice puke spray stains from every window. Good news for us our seats were in the very front! So we arrived in Mt. Abu which is really nice, we were somewhat worried since we always just show up without pre-booking any accommodation and we heard that with Diwali just around the corner we might be SOL but we managed to [View Full Entry]

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Hey Guys, Well after a nice night train ride we arrived in the city of Jodhpur, the train was pretty good despite my ranting about the state of the Delhi Train Station. Once we arrived we got settled into our Hostel and set out to explore. Our first stop was to vist the Mehrangarh Fort, which was built atop of a sandstone mountain and acts as a beautiful backdrop for the old city. The climb to the Fort was a little much in the heat but once we entered the Fort it was worth it. The Fort is amazing, the sheer [View Full Entry]

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Hey Guys, Well we arrived in Delhi and well.....where to begin. After over 6 months on the road and some pretty extensive independent travel through 3rd world countries in South America and Africa you think we would be prepared for India, but alas we were still shocked! I'm going to try and really be objective with my India blogs but I'm also going to be brutally honest. There is Beauty in India but India is not beautiful. Our arrival into the heart of New Delhi to the area of Paharganj where we were staying was about as much as you want [View Full Entry]

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Hey Guys, Well we arrived in Turkey and pretty much hit the ground running! We had previously decided to speed up our travels through Turkey to pick up 2 weeks since we are looking at doing a month in Indoneasia or just adding it onto Australia. We were confident we could catch all the main attractions as we would probably just spend those 2 weeks lounging on the beaches of Mediterranean and after a beautiful week in Dahab on the Red Sea we were willing to make the sacrifice (life is rough). So as I was saying we got to Istanbul [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys, Well our travels into the Middle East had us cross over from Egypt into Jordan. We ended up getting a transfer from Aqaba to Wadi Moussa otherwise known as Petra. After checking into our hostel we headed to the lost city of Petra, this site is so spectactular that we dedicated two full days to discover all it has to offer. When you first arrive you walk for close to half an hour through a large sandstone valley. When you finally reach the last turn you are offered your first peak at the Treasury Building, easily the most recognisable [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys, Well we've arrived in Egypt and our first impression of Egypt is it's really hot! I think I turned into a puddle approx. 2 minutes after walking out of the Cairo airport. We managed to make it to our hostel and ended up relaxing most of the day partly due to the heat as well as being tired from sleeping in the Nairobi airport the night before. I definitely don't recommend doing this as it was one of the worst airports we've ever been in. Our original plan for Egypt was we were going to do everything ourselves, but [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys, Well I know you might have thought the next blog was going to be about Moshi and Mt. Kilimanjaro but unfortunately there won't be one. We left Zanzibar and arrived in Moshi pretty excited to some trekking on Kili but the weather just would not co-operate with us. We ended up staying there for two days waiting out the weather and it only changed for the worst. We never got to do any hiking due to the super rain fall and to make it even worse we never even saw Mt. Kilimanjaro the whole time we were there :( [View Full Entry]

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