Rajasthan, India

Nov 25, 2010

Delhi, Agra, and Rajastan We landed in the dark and went looking for our hotel pick-up (we'd booked ahead to make our lives easier). After half and hour of wandering we decided we weren't getting picked up! So we caught a cab to the backpacker part of Delhi, Paharganj. After dodging all of the offers of a good hotel room, and visiting the not so delightful Decent Guesthouse (some walls missing), we managed to find a good hotel room! We...

Darjeeling, India

Nov 25, 2010

Darjeeling Our flight to Siliguri (for Darjeeling) was long, with an overnight stop in Bangalore airport. Not very impressed with the town of Siliguri, we got in a share-jeep to Darjeeling the next morning for a very bumpy ride into the hills….. The view was amazing as we got higher and when we finally reached Darjeeling we could see the Himalayas. We found a lovely little hotel run by a very friendly family, with a view of the Himal...

Kerala, India

Nov 25, 2010

India - the South I know it's been a long time since our last post, but as it's our last few days in India I thought I better start writing! So, following our last entry we landed in Mumbai on a very hot and sweaty morning…. We spent a few hectic days in Mumbai, watching people play cricket, visiting museums, the high court, and the Gateway of India. We tried to visit Elephanta Island but there was a big verdict that meant the harbou...

Singapore, Singapore

Sep 29, 2010

We finally left Bali (never thought I'd say that) and flew to Singapore. We had a very pleasant taxi ride from the airport to our hotel in the back of a Mercedes with a very friendly driver. He warned us that our hotel was in the red light district (we knew this, but it was cheap!). We were still surprised when most of the street was lined with brothels… but when it's grand prix weekend you can't be too picky! And it turned out that most o...

Bali And Lombok, Indonesia

Sep 29, 2010

We eventually cleared customs at Bali's airport and got to our hotel late in the evening only to be told that they didn't have our reservation and they only had a vacancy for the one night and every other hotel was fully booked due to the end of Ramadan! The biggest downside was that we hardly got any time to use our swim-up pool! We were up early the next morning to catch a fast boat to Gili Trawangan, a little island in a group of three of...