Month: September 2019
India Part 5: Madurai to Goa (aka Cheeky Monkeys and Dingy Bars)
Continuing our trip around South India, we left the green hills of Periyer National Park for Madurai in Tamil Nadu. Whilst we had been booked on a 6 hour local bus, our previous experiences on these and the threat of riding in heavy monsoon rains with no windows meant we felt this was a decent …
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India Part 4: Kerala (aka chilling and trekking)
If places like Varanasi and Agra are the India that everyone has in their minds, Kerala has been the India that we didn't imagine. Upon landing in Trivandrum, the sheer greenery of the place hits you straight away. And then driving around: there are no cows and the wall of car and tuk tuk beeping …
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India Part 3: Jaipur to Varanasi (aka Handsome Priests and Plagues of Locusts)
Departing Pushkar, we were starting our final leg across North India - heading to Jaipur, Abhaneri, Agra and Varanasi. Jaipur is the largest city in Rajasthan, and perhaps one of our favourites from our previous time in India. At the centre is the "Pink City" which dates back centuries but was only painted pink for …
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