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Rajasthan Road Trip: Fatehpur Sikri
By January 19, 2013 5 Comments Read More →

Rajasthan Road Trip: Fatehpur Sikri

Rajasthan Road Trip – Day Two of our Two Week Driving Itinerary We awoke refreshed and exhilarated after our one night stop and driving tour of Agra. The second day started with something of a storm. Not the weather but a man made one created by John.  The evening before our driver told us that the driver […]

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Rajasthan Car and Driver – Agra
By January 15, 2013 5 Comments Read More →

Rajasthan Car and Driver – Agra

This is the first post in a series, sharing our experience of what is it like to hire a Rajasthan car and driver to get you around the most regal of Indian states.  The start of our driving journey takes us to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal. We arrived in New Delhi at 06:50 hrs on […]

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Spiritual India: Varanasi

Spiritual India: Varanasi

Getting to Varanasi from Delhi The hardest part travelling to Varanasi was getting hold of the train tickets where we had spent a couple of hours queueing at the international ticket desk at Delhi station a few days previously.   This is one of the places that I was very excited to see, many people had told […]

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Sightseeing Around New Delhi
By January 5, 2013 0 Comments Read More →

Sightseeing Around New Delhi

Sightseeing around New Delhi New Delhi has been our first big city in India (we had visited Chennai, but this was more of a stopover) and it has been a real surprise.  The first is that with the exception of key junctions and parts in the very centre of town, the traffic runs quite smoothly, especially on the […]

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Delhi: Our North India Trip Begins
By January 1, 2013 2 Comments Read More →

Delhi: Our North India Trip Begins

North India Trip – Getting from Pondicherry to Delhi We failed to get any train tickets for our journey from Chennai to Delhi so we ended up flying with Spicejet from Chennai, it is all getting a little bit busier as we find ourselves on the more popular routes. We took the local express bus from […]

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