Blogs from Madhogarh, Rajasthan, India, Asia

19th December ’11 Agra to Bassi by public bus then open back jeeps to Madhogarh Up at 7ish to get breakfast as there is no food available until 2pm today. We all piled into the public bus (much fretting about bag safety by certain older group members) and off we rattled it was a 4 hour journey but we did have 1 pee and tea stop so not too bad – I even managed to find a kit kat and some cadbury’s chocolate (both made in India). When we got to the jeeps Howard and I sat in the open back section, it was great! Bombing along through rural villages with all of life out on display, camels, pigs and cows all wandering around, men playing cards and women working! We came up to a train ... read more

Another early start as we made our way by local coach to the middle of rural Rajasthan where we stayed in a former fort now converted into a beautiful heritage hotel. Sitting back window wide open allowing the breeze to cool me down as the morning heat shines in. I drown out the noise of the locals and continuous beeping from the roads by plugging in my music and loosing myself as I gazed into the fields of rural India. Amongst them were beautiful women dressed in gorgeous colourful saris tending to the crops whilst men worked on construction sites or in the roadside stalls. Children ran free and happy as they played on the street or bathed by the lakes. I did however snap back into reality on several occasions when our crazy coach driver ... read more

This whole travel blog thing is alot harder to keep up than I thought. Ive been travelling around alot over the last 2weeks and I have to think about all the stuff I did???So I'll try and remember. The bus from Udaipur was a bit crazy had a man shouting at us where to go, even though there was no bus in sight, eventually it turned up. We'd booked ourseles n a tourist bus (theyre usually supposed to be very nice and comfy). Our one wasnt. The seats were all broken and the curtains stank, it was a bit like a local bus but more expensive. The bus took about 7 hours to get to Mount Abu. The driver stopped after 20minutes of driving so everyone could have a break!!and stopped again about 40minutes before we ... read more

Castle in Dausa Secret passage in our room Elegant sari's Today we travelled to Madhogarh where we stayed in a castle. Sounds so fairytale like. After settling into our rooms and then having a bit of free time to rest up we ventured out on a village walking tour where we saw the local cobbler, rugmaker, stones being polished for sari's, sari's being decorated with beads and sequins, bangles and kid's playing a cricket game (and then the guys from our group joining in and then subsequently having the ball go missing in the field...ball thrown too hard!) It was a pleasant walk through the village. They asked that we did not bring our cameras with us because all of the kids in the past were asking for their pictures to be taken and it was ... read more