Lucknow: Is it worth a Look?
Flashpacking Travel | January 11, 2013 | 8 Comments
Lucknow to Varanasi? After reluctantly leaving Varanasi, we would have liked to have stayed another night or so in this special and spiritual place, two nights just wasn’t enough but we needed to be in New Delhi in a few days time to meet our driver to start our tour of Rajasthan. We had already booked our train tickets […]
Spiritual India: Varanasi
Travel Blog | January 9, 2013 | 13 Comments
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 […]
Sightseeing Around New Delhi
Travel Blog | January 5, 2013 | 0 Comments
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 […]
Delhi: Our North India Trip Begins
Travel Blog | January 1, 2013 | 2 Comments
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 […]
India East Coast: Pondicherry a Taste of France in India
Travel Blog | December 29, 2012 | 2 Comments
After enjoying our twinkling night-time scenes and a bellyful of temples in Mysore we headed East across Karnataka and entered our third Indian state of this trip. Tamil Nadu’s capital Chennai was our first port of call on our way to Pondicherry. We had decided that the city did not offer us much in the […]
India Travel: Things to do in Mysore
Travel Blog | December 26, 2012 | 3 Comments
Mysore, or Mysuru as it’s also known, is in the state of Karnataka. If you haven’t visited Mysore before, we think it’s worth including on your India travel itinerary. The city is rich in heritage with many royal palaces, interesting colonial buildings, a choice of temples, churches and mosques to satiate any religious creed and […]
Mysore Palace Lights Up Night Sky
Flashpacking Travel | December 23, 2012 | 3 Comments
We arrived on Sunday afternoon in Mysore after taking a private taxi from Wayanad, its a three hour, 150Km journey which allows you to wave goodbye to Kerala State and say a big hello to Karnataka. Travel on Indian buses on a Sunday from this location wasn’t really an option, think busy times ten. So we got […]
Kerala Travel: Kannur to Wayanad
Travel Blog | December 20, 2012 | 2 Comments
We had a wonderful relaxing time at our Kannur homestay, enjoying the beach, nature, and the wonderful food in our ‘all inclusive’ remote beach escape. All good things come to an end though ,so reluctantly we packed our backpacks and travelled by auto rickshaw for a 130Km three hour journey to Wayanad. Now it may […]
India: Kerala Homestay in Kannur
Flashpacking Travel | December 15, 2012 | 7 Comments
The Train from Kochin to Kannur We left Kochi and headed for somewhere a little bit more off the tourist map to a place called Kannur in Northern Kerala. Our five hour train journey was a giggle in our seated carriage, as we were the only tourists there. The children seemed fascinated with us, as […]
Kerala Relaxation, Backwaters and Ayurvedic Massage
Travel Blog | December 11, 2012 | 1 Comments
Kerala Backwaters Our second full day in Kerala was devoted to the water. No trip here would be considered complete until you have experienced the calm tranquillity of the Kerala backwaters. If you want to get the complete experience you can hire one of the Ketuvallam boats for yourself, they come in a range of […]