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Ok so as every one should know we are back in England, I know we are really bad at keeping up to date. Well even in the same month month would be good. Anyway we spent some time in this lovely town. I highly recommend this little town with so many interesting palaces and some of the friendliest people in India. A great little river that you can swim in as anybody will tell you there aren't many. They also have these amazing vultures. It was a great place to start saying goodbye to India. we stayed in this wicked place called Betwa Retreat. A little more expensive than in town but well worth it. The first few nights we stayed in a posh tent and the last night we stayed in the Maharaj Suite, our ... read more

We had a great 26hr train journey to Varanassi , thankfully we had arranged for somebody to meet us and take us to the hotel. Thus avoiding the harassment and after such a joyfull journey the last thing you want is to deal with are the sharks. Our hotel had a cool view of the river. The only bummer was the monkey troop haveing a domestic right outside the door. Next morning we went exploring, Varanassi is amazeing, the old city full of alleys and little shops. You honestly feel though you are in a totaly different time. We found a cool little restuarant called the Lotus Cafe. Good food and great views,good music. The next day we did the tourist must do, and shared a boat up and down the river well worth it very ... read more

So we arrived at the hill station a place when people from Delhi need to get away from the heat. Shimla is about 2000m above sea level I think. The town is built on a hill with lots of steep hills and hardly any space for cars so you walk every where, loads of fun with a heavy rucksack. We found a really cool/kitch/boogie nights room round bed, mirrors on the ceiling, velvet drapes and false flowers. The view was pretty amazeing to. Shimla is a really quirky place with loads of character. English Tudor mixed with temples, monkeys in the street, a square called Scandal point where every one meets. We spent two days here just pottering around not really doing much. We left Shimla on The Toy train a great train trip highly recomended ... read more

It was not where we had planned to go but we met a very convincing tout hence the hustle and kind of ended up on a plane the next day.We flew in over the Himalayas which was breathtaking. Landing in Shrinigar Airport was like landing in an army air base, fighter jets housed in camo painted tunnels infact everything was painted camo. We were met by armed army personel who herded all the passengers into arrivals. We were then escorted out of the airport by another guard who made sure we got into the car with the right person. We then drove to Dal Lake to a house boat which was to be our home for the next week. There is such a huge military presence, ther every 100 meters or so is a army guys ... read more

Bling Bling, I have never seen so many jewelry stores in my life not just the fake stuff though the big Cahoona rubies and emeralds which we saw raw and being polished by hand in the Muslim part of the city which is famous for precious stones. If I was a rich girl la la la la la I would have bought, but not so just admired and dreamed as I held them in my paws. We took an old cylcle rickshaw ride round the Pink city with our rickshaw driver who had the brightest smile and the most disheveled hair, we named him appropriatley Mogli. We visited a very old observatory which was very strange it was like something out of Labarynth or Alice in wonderland, steps going up into the sky all tools to ... read more