You’re waiting on the platform and the train arrives ten minutes early. As you board, your steward checks your tickets and takes you to your cabin, where plush beds with…
The Port City of Kochi
Kerala’s port city of Kochi is a big tourist draw, with its complex history reflected in both the culture and architecture. From Chinese fishing nets, ancient mosques and spice markets,…
Homestay in the Alleppey Backwaters
When most people think of Kerala, the first place that comes to mind is the Alleppey backwaters. Lush green scenery with rivers and waterways filled with floating houseboats. Small villages surrounded…
Varkala – The “mini Goa” of Kerala
If you’re looking for an alternative to Goa, then just a couple of hours up the coast from Thiruvananthapuram is Varkala, a small beach town with a big focus on yoga,…
Thiruvananthapuram, Capital of Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram (try saying that at 5:30am at the airport check-in desk) is the largest city and gateway to the state of Kerala. We just stayed a few days, but found…
Life and Death in Varanasi
“Don’t go to Varanasi.” That’s what we’d been told by a few people we’d met on our trip. “You’ll either love it or hate it,” others had said. It’s certainly…
Beauty and the Bizarre in Orchha
Orchha is a small town on the river Betwa in India’s northern Madhya Pradesh, a beautiful ancient land filled with magnificent forts, medieval palaces and sacred temples steeped in history…
Alipura and the Kama Sutra Temples of Khajuraho
Alipura is a small rural town in Madhya Pradesh. Around eighty percent of the Indian population live in small towns and villages like this one and it was a breath…
The Taj Mahal
One of the new seven wonders of the world, the Taj Mahal is high on everyone’s list when visiting India. Out of everything to see in the country it wasn’t…
Village Life in Tordi Sagar
Tordi Sagar is a small village in rural Rajasthan, around a three hour drive from Jaipur. Our home for the night was Tordi Palace, a beautiful heritage hotel and the…
The Pink City of Jaipur
Jaipur, the capital of India’s Rajasthan state, is an amazing, colourful city, with chaotic streets and lively bazaars. Camels and elephants share the roads with scooters and cycle rickshaws. In…
New Delhi and No Signs of a Bad Belly
Namaste India! This one has been on the bucket list for a long time. We arrived to an extremely smoggy New Delhi late at night and the next day set…
Getting an Indian visa in Hanoi
We were half way through our trip when we decided we wanted to add India into the itinerary. We thought we could get the e-visa online, but it only lasts…