Rob’s India and Nepal blog

Calcutta will be our longest stay of the trip, second only to our four weeks at YTT in Varkala. In this blog, I will cover our middle four days which have been slightly less eventful in part due to us taking it slowly in the heat, and in part due to the inevitable stomach bugs Read more

At the end of the last blog, I had left us with Ellie brewing some kind of stomach bug in the Varanasi homestay. We had an alarm set for 4am to get us up for the train, and we weren’t sure how likely it was that we’d make it. In this blog, I will cover Read more

Unfortunately, I managed to delete the completed blog I had written for the second half of Varanasi so this is my second attempt at writing. We had been in Varanasi for a few days by this point, and we were starting to get familiar with the rhythms of life. In this blog, I’ll cover our Read more

It was with a little trepidation that we set forth from Lucknow to Varanasi. Varanasi is a city of around 2 million on the banks of the Ganges (or Ganga, as locals always are saying) in eastern Uttar Pradesh, and is widely held to be the holiest city in India for Hindus. As it is Read more

We were finishing off our Rajasthani tour with a short detour into the rural area of Shekhawati to see the famed havelis, then heading back to Jaipur to catch the train to Lucknow. Lucknow is the capital of the North-Central state of Uttar Pradesh, and serves as just a one-night stepping stone for us before Read more

I left off the last blog on Saturday, me being stricken by a stomach bug that had laid me low the whole day. By Monday morning I was fairly convinced I was recovering, but over the course of the week the bug has come and gone (though never as badly as the first day). What’s Read more