Geo: 28.488, 85.9351Wow!! As soon as you enter the plane you start to feel the excitement, when you take off and get above the smog of Kathmandu and the mist, you see the Himalayas and you are immediately captivated. You want to take as many photos as possible from the get go but you know you have to limit yourself. The flight into Lukla is an experience in itself, the landscape is breathtaking where the decent into Lukla airport weaves through the valley's and approaches possible one of the smallest runways ever, but it's angles uphill to compensate.A safe landing is made and you step out into a cooler climate with guides and porters clambering for some business, all while being quickly whisked into the baggage waiting area. Lukla is a small town and is the ... read more

Geo: 27.3016, 88.2327I really like Sikkim, the scenery is really amazing with the steep hills and looming mountains above. It's a nice place to come and relax and take in the silence before heading into the more crowded places. It's amazing to drive through the valley's and seeing houses built on the most extreme slopes and in the most random places where even getting access would be a hassle.After taking a 5 hour jeep ride from Gangtok to Pelling we settled into Hotel Kabur. Two French girls, Anna and Lucie, who took our jeep also stayed here. Hotel Kabur is a nice little place to stay with a nice restaurant up the top. Here we found a whole bunch of other travelers.We grabbed some dinner and headed for an early night, it was pretty cold so ... read more

Geo: 27.04, 88.2636To get to Darjeeling from Kolkota you take an overnight train, so mine left at 10pm and arrived around 9am the next morning. I thought i was going to get a sleepless night but it turned out OK, the guy kinda next to me had some serious snoring happening, almost louder than the train.I managed to wake up around 7:30 and I arrived into New Jaipaguri at about 9. Once out of the train station there are so many jeeps offering rides to Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Gangtok along with many other places but mostly these three. I had to get a Sikkim permit in Siliguri so i grabbed a bike taxi and 30min later i was applying for my Permit. I then hopped in a shared jeep to Darjeeling.There was only four in the ... read more

Geo: 13.0615, 80.2478After finding that trains were booked out on the original route we were going to take, we had to change our plans. This seemed an easier way for both of us seeing as we weren't backtracking. So our new plan was to head east to Chennai and then fly to Calcutta.We left Hampi around midday where we caught a train to Guntakal which was a stopover for the night due to having to catch the train at 6.30 the next morning. The train ride to Guntakal was not a enjoyable one, it seemed to be overbooked and people were cramming in our carriage. We arrived in Guntakal with no accommodation because we couldn't find any information about the town, it wasn't even mentioned in the lonely planet. But we asked around and found a ... read more

Geo: 15.3913, 73.9485Once we had hopped of the train we were waiting for a rickshaw and we met a girl called Rebecca in which the three of us shared a rickshaw, we arrived in Patnem in which we all had no place booked so before we headed out to look for accommodation the three of us had a drink. Rebecca messaged a friend to come and meet her, so her friend came with another girl who turned out to be Emma who was Caroles friend, so it was pretty random, but a they had got us some accommodation in a beach hut for 700Rs which is fairly cheap for this time of year, but we only had it for 4 nights. So we settled into the hut and before we knew it we were lazying about ... read more