Follow our adventures in India, the Himalayas and Sri Lanka!
The journey to Nepal from India on land is well trodden, I have done it myself twice previously in the opposite direction. It follows the route across northern India to Gorakhpur before taking a bus north to the border town of Sunauli. We rocked up tired and managed to haggle a taxi for 1000 INR (£10) for the 2hr drive.…
If you arrive in Delhi at the start of your trip through India it will be a baptism of fire that will leave you ripped off and wondering what just happened. Hot, sweaty, humid and unforgivingly chaotic, Delhi is a city that is hard to like. Reading the news today (11th August 2016) I was not at all surprised to…
Uttarakhand is a state in Northern India and one of the few to border Nepal. It sells itself as a state for adventure, for hiking, for pilgrims, Yoga, for becoming one with nature and an epicentre of Hinduism. Rocking up on the Yoga express from Delhi, an overnight trundle through a slice of the north, I was excited. We had…
The farthest north of India is a decorated landscape of amazing geological formations showing millennia of glacial destruction dotted with snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas. On the surface it is a hiker’s paradise, with treks ranging from days to weeks and taking in some of the remotest villages in this part of the world, whilst giving altitude keen mountaineers a…
Home to the golden temple, we were in Amritsar for a number of reasons. First of all, we were heading north so it kind of fell into our route, but mainly because the golden temple is just gorgeous and well worth a visit. We rolled up into Amritsar off a torturous 16 hour overnighter from Agra and were welcomed by…
Jaipur has long been a stalwart on most tourists itineraries that head to India. Just a stones throw, well a long stones throw, 4 hours by rail in fact, from Agra it is the natural choice for those looking for a slice of India in just a couple of weeks. The capital of Rajasthan, Jaipur is a seamless combination of…
We began our Indian journey in the sleepy, self-proclaimed ‘most beautiful city in India’ and penned more recently ‘cleanest city in India’. Couples make the pilgrimage to Udaipur in droves to seal the deal beside one of the cities many lakes, mirroring one of the lakes’ many palaces. A quick 50 minute hop from Mumbai, Udaipur is not quite on…
Usually when we plan summer, it is done so about 8 weeks in advance. The reason is more-often than not an indecision of where to go and what to do. So, when Christmas 2015 rolled around my wife and spoke about what the year ahead would hold for us. Inevitably summer 2016 came up and we discussed heading back to…
New Delhi – The capital city of India, the gateway to the North and home to some 16 million people. Delhi is a faceless megalopolis roasted much of the year in arid desert temperatures and then drenched every summer with the Northern Monsoon coming down from the Himalayas. The minimum wage in Delhi is one of the highest in India…
Chandigarh is a unique city in India, not only is it metropolitan, meaning that it is governed not by the state of Punjab in which is sits, but by the central government. It is one of the wealthiest cities in the subcontinent and home to one of the lowest crime rates in the country. The streets are clean, wide and…