Arriving in Bangkok felt like heaven. We landed early in the morning, tired and exhausted from the long trip, and we had to wait the whole day until our Couch surfing host could meet us. We really wanted to get…
THE TOUCH OF THE INDIAN HIMALAYA
From Delhi, we took our last overnight train, which took us to the city of Rishikesh, located at the footsteps of the Indian Himalaya. We arrived early morning, knowing that our couch surfing host Nitin was already waiting for us…
NEW DELHI, OLD DELHI
Before coming to Delhi, a big chunk of India was already behind us, but we where still expecting the worst as many people that we’ve met didn’t speak fondly about the nation’s capital. Mostly everybody hated their visit to Delhi…
VARANASI, THE SPIRITUAL CITY OF INDIA
Varanasi, one of the seven holy cities of India, was highly recommended to us by many people. We even changed our initiary, taking a half daylong train to get there and back, but we certainly didn’t leave disappointed. The fog…
AGRA AND THE TAJ MAHAL
Our main purpose for visiting Agra was The Taj Mahal. It’s on the bucket list of almost every traveller that comes to India and for us it was no different. It’s considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of…
THE GOLD AND THE PINK CITY: JAISALMER, JODHPUR
We switched the bus for a train to leave the Blue City and get to the Golden City of Jaisalmer. Arriving early morning, we already knew where we were staying as a Couch surfer agreed to host us in his…
WELCOMING RAJASTHAN AND 2015
After our short visit to Ahmadabad we were moving further north in to the next Indian state, Rajasthan. It felt different from the start as the roads suddenly got better and the landscape changed once more. A more yellow tone…
ANCIENT INDIA: ELLORA AND AJANTA CAVES
MAKING THE MOST OF MUMBAI
Driving through the seemingly endless suburbs of Mumbai, looking at the infinite number of worn-down apartment buildings and scrappy shacks, we were starting to get a true feel of its actual size. We were expecting it to be big but…
INDIAN COAST: GOKARNA, GOA
After five days of chilling in Hampi, more days of chilling were awaiting us on the beautiful coast of Karnataka and Goa. From Hampi, we took a bumpy overnight sleeper bus to Kudle beach, one of the three main beaches…