The train from Lucknow to Varanasi For more “experience travel” and because of a lack of availability of any other seats, we travel from Lucknow to Varanasi in unair-conditioned sleeper class. We anticipate it will be hot and crowded but we are not expecting there to be no room in Read more…
The train to Jaipur is very comfortable and we spend the trip chatting with a very jovial Indian businessman who seems very impressed with our beautifully behaved children and their ability to entertain themselves for such a long time. Lucky he wasn’t in the bathroom at Udaipur! We arrive at Read more…
There are some parts of India where train travel is fairly easy, if not a little slow. However, there is no train route between Jodphur and Udaipur so we have decided to take a local bus service. I am imagining it might be a bit like this! (I found this Read more…
April 13th: Our first Train Trip to Jodhpur Something we have noticed about India is that we are a novelty wherever we go. We have to set aside at least half an hour in each location to pose for photos and take photos of other people. We must be on Read more…
Journeying to Pushkar Sunday morning we have organised another car and driver to take us to Pushkar as our wait-listed tickets on Indian Rail have not become available and we do not have the energy to turn up at the station at 4.30am to see if we can get onto Read more…
7th April After an hour of circling around and around in the plane over central India because there was congestion at the airport, we touch down in Delhi at about 11am. The benefit of flying around in circles is that we get to see the Himalayas out the window. Several times. Our big Read more…