Category Archives: India

Havelock Island – Beach No 3

For the first 3 nights on Havelock Island we stayed on the eastern side of the island at beach number 3. All the beaches are numbered rather than named here, as are the villages. We stayed at Barefoot Scuba Resort … Continue reading

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Getting to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

We left our friends early on Sunday morning and got a taxi the shortish distance across south Delhi to Indira Gandhi International for our flight to Chennai. We got to fly out of the new T3, just few

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Last day in Delhi

On our final day in Delhi the driver wanted to get a photo with us so we stopped at a Kodak store to get a portrait taken (a rather funny experience!). We then went to pick up Mark’s tailor made … Continue reading

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Delhi – The Red Fort and a Late Night Food Tour

After another amazing and very filling home cooked breakfast we headed up to the Red Fort in Old Delhi. As it was a Friday and the main day at the Jama Mosjid, the largest Mosque in India, we were dropped … Continue reading

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Arriving in Delhi

We arrived on the overnight train from Udaipur at around 6.30am. We had arranged to stay with Manmeet and Sanmeet, some local Delhi-ites that Andrea knew through work. They had arranged to have a driver meet us at the train

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Cooking with Shashi in Udaipur

One thing on we were hoping to do on our travels around India was to do a cooking class. The Lonely Planet recommended a lady in Udaipur who ran ‘enthusiastic’ lessons from her small kitchen below a local restaurant. At … Continue reading

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Udaipur

An early start for what turned into a long days travel. We caught our ‘deluxe’ bus at 8am, (leaves at 7:30 be there for 7:15) luckily we got on quick enough to grab the last seats in the row of … Continue reading

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Jodhpur

Jodhpur is known as the Blue city and it certainly lives up to its name. Apparently people painted their houses with a chemical to get rid of termites which turned their white houses blue, as a result the old city … Continue reading

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Jaisalmer

About 12 hours after leaving Jaipur we arrived in the desert city of Jaisalmer – the end of the line in terms of Indian railways, just desert until the Pakistan border from here on. A fairly uneventful overnight journey, only … Continue reading

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Jaipur

After a early start (4 am) we were off to Agra Fort station for our only seated train journey so far. We got to Jaipur Junction around 9am, luckily this time the hotel we were going to stay at

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