On the pictures on booking.com Anugara Treehouse Palace really looks like a luxury hotel and was marked to have five stars but when we arrived the building was indeed grand and palatial but the gatekeeper (and the gate to the street for that matter) looked somewhat tired and worn out. The reception, which unfortunately, Read More
Sawai Madhopur is a small sleepy town southwest of Agra, on the way to Udaipur, which is our next stop. Here are westerners not as common as in the big cities and we quickly became popular. What happens is that people stare, some more and some less, mostly on Christel but also on Johan,, Read More
It was so nice to leave Agra! We had booked a train at six in the morning and had agreed with a rickshaw driver who we had met the day before that he would pick us up at 5:00 am and he was there when we came out of the hotel in the morning., Read More
Since Agra is mostly about the Taj Mahal, it was our main event in this city. We set our alarm clock to wake us up at 5:00 AM to get to Taj Mahal before sunrise. We had not booked any transport but like everywhere in India there is always a tuktuk ready to drive, Read More
Johan was feeling a little better when we had to leave the hotel to go to the railway station. This was really good news as it is really not fun to be sick on an Indian train. The journey between Jaipur and Agra is not very long by Indian standards – 6 hours –, Read More
When we got back to the hotel Johan became worse and had his first experience of “Delhi Belly”. Christel ordered pizza for supper and got it delivered to the room. Johan slept through the remaining time in Jaipur and I did not feel a need for going out by myself. I can not say, Read More
This morning we went out to look at Jaipur – the Pink City. We took a rickshaw to the city palace located in the old part of town where almost all the houses are pink. After having been in Varanasi for a while which admittedly was hysterical when it comes to traffic but where, Read More
(Varanasi, India, 16th of Sep 2016) We have made a visit to Manikarnika Ghat, which is the largest cremation site in Varanasi, and it was really an memorable experience. Maybe not pleasant but very fascinating. We saw families carrying their deceased relatives on stretchers down to the Gath. The bodies were dressed in colorful shiny, Read More
(Varanasi, India, 15th of Sep 2016) It’s hard to describe Varanasi with words as there is so much going on at the same time. There are women bathing in Ganges, men praying, children playing, flowers being sacrificed, bodies being burned, holy men begging and a lot of cows just hanging around. And this is, Read More
(Varanasi, India, 14th of Sep 2016) At breakfast time the first day in Varanasi we met a lot of nice westerners. The hotel is built around a courtyard where breakfast and meals are served – apparently a good place for socializing.