Today has just been one of those days. I was woken up at 6.30am by the hotel staff shouting to one another, the sound of furniture being dragged around and very loud banging. Since I was paying a kings ransom of Rs800 per night, at least double what I normally pay, I was not impressed. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Rajasthan’
Happy? Holi from Jaipur
Posted in Gap year, India, Solo travel, Travel, Woman Travelling alone, tagged "24 hour check-out" Pushkar, "colour festival", "Hindu festival", "holi festival", elephant, elephants, festival, Holi, India, Jaipur, Rajasthan, Richshaw on March 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Agra and the Magnificent Taj Mahal
Posted in Gap year, India, Solo travel, Travel, Woman Travelling alone, tagged "24 hour check-out", "colour festival", "Hindu festival", "holi festival", "Kama Sutra", "sleeper class", "Taj Mahal", Agra, Bodhgaya, festival, Holi, Jaipur, Khajuraho, Pushkar, Rajasthan, Taj Ganj, train on February 25, 2010 | 6 Comments »
One can’t see everything and I had to make the decision to cut Khajuraho and its fascinating ‘Kama Sutra’ temples and Bodhgaya, the place of Buddha’s enlightenment, from my list. I am heading west to Rajasthan and they are both in the opposite direction. There is one place, however, that I would never miss and [...]



