Rob’s India and Nepal blog

I’m writing on the 7 hour train between Jodhpur and Jaipur, which is considerably more luxurious than the bus we took described at the beginning of this blog. We had shortened our time in Jodhpur to 3 full days to be able to get to Mount Abu. In this blog, I will cover those 3 Read more

We had decided whilst in Kochi that several weeks back to back of very hot and very busy Indian cities was possibly not best advised, so decided to break up our tour of cities in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh with some more rural trips. The first of these was to Mount Abu, the only Rajasthani Read more

The last few days have been busy, and so I haven’t had the chance to start writing about our last few days in Udaipur until several days after we left. Even in such a short time some of the details start to blur from day to day, but I will try and include as much Read more

After a long day of travel we arrived, as per the last blog, in Udaipur on Monday evening. We have until next Monday in the city, but we have changed the plan slightly from here in that, instead of going to Jodhpur straight away, we are spending two nights in the Mount Abu area to Read more

We’ve moved quite a bit in the last 4 days, and I’m starting writing this blog on our flight from Kochi to Mumbai. I will cover the 4 days in which we have travelled from Munnar down to the bird sanctuary in Thettekad, then from there for our last night in Kochi, and finally our Read more

The Shade, our new homestay for the next 5 nights, is not actually in the mountain town of Munnar itself. Instead it is about a 30 minute drive through the Western Ghats mountains to the south-west, near the towns of Anachal and Aadi. We had decided whilst in Kochi on some good recommendations to shorten Read more