Our Five Month India Trip Comes To An End adrescher1 April 22, 2014 Destinations, Experiences, India, My Travels, North India, South India 3 Embarking on our final 6 hour train journey from Bangalore to Chennai, we were emotional to be rounding up our 5 month India journey. India has touched us in so many ways; it’s chaotic, stressful, calming,...
Udaipur & Mumbai, Round 2 adrescher1 May 26, 2013 India, Maharashtra, My Travels, North India, Rajasthan Udaipur So, we’re trying to get down to Bijapur (Karnataka) in time for my Product Design Development internship with Sabala… What we’ve discovered is that, it’s pretty much impossible to get from anywhere in...
Pushkar adrescher1 May 20, 2013 India, My Travels, North India, Rajasthan Pushkar is a holy Hindu pilgrimage town, which is special because it is home to one of very few Brahma temples in the world. Infact, we were told, the name Pushkar means lotus flower, which Brahma is said to ...
Jaipur adrescher1 May 15, 2013 India, My Travels, North India, Rajasthan We didn’t actually really want to come to Jaipur as we had only really heard negative things, but I have to say I was quite pleasantly surprised. We arrived to Jaipur much earlier than we had anticipated – inf...
Camel Trekking in Jaisalmer adrescher1 May 13, 2013 Experiences, India, My Travels, North India, Rajasthan We chose to book our camel trek with our hotel, as the reviews matched those of Trotters and various other companies, the staff were amazingly helpful, and it was obviously convenient. we booked for 2...
Jaisalmer adrescher1 May 12, 2013 India, My Travels, North India, Rajasthan One thing you should know about Jaisalmer: it's HOT! 46-degrees (maximum) we were dealing with here! Ouch. Thankfully though, it wasn't humid so it was more bearable than you'd have thought. Our train was sup...
Jodhpur adrescher1 May 9, 2013 Featured, India, My Travels, North India, Rajasthan It was pretty late in the evening when we arrived by bus to Jodhpur (AKA Blue City). We checked in at Shivam Paying Guesthouse, which sits just at the bottom of Mehrangarh Fort’s walls, and were greeted with ...
Udaipur adrescher1 May 7, 2013 India, My Travels, North India, Rajasthan Amazing, colourful, beautiful Udaipur. A Dream. This is the first place we have visited in Rajasthan and we were not disappointed. We arrived really early in the morning, so thankfully we’d booked accommodat...
Why I Didn’t Enjoy Ahmedabad, India adrescher1 May 3, 2013 Gujarat, India, Maharashtra, My Travels, North India Not that I gave it much of a chance, but Ahmedabad is not a place I enjoyed... Roads swamped with very little else but rickshaws, I wonder how, with all the competition, any of them get any business. ...
Train Journey from Hell adrescher1 March 4, 2013 India, Madhya Pradesh, North India, South India So maybe it was our mistake not to book the train from Agra to Hyderabad in advance, but it’s difficult to know how long we are going to stay in a place, and where we want to go after. Also, it’s not like we’ve...