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Rajasthan Road Trip: Fatehpur Sikri
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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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Lucknow: Is it worth a Look?

Lucknow: Is it worth a Look?

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 […]

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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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