In the southern state of India, lying parallel to the Arabian seacoast is the mystical water world of Kerala. The network includes five large lakes, all intertwining by both natural and man-made canals. The waterways are all interconnected and feed into nearly forty...
While we were travelling around the stunning province of Rajasthan in India last year, we kept hearing about this weird rat temple. We immediately knew that it was somewhere we definitely had to visit. Yes, we're strange like that! India presents a plethora of bizarre...
In the north of India, on the west bank of the sacred river Ganges and 360km away from the Nepali border, stands the holiest city of Hinduism: Varanasi. According to legend, Varanasi, also called Kashi or Benares, was founded 4,000 years ago by Lord Shiva, mighty god...
On August 4th 2015, we left the comforts of Chiang Mai to do a 10 week backpacking trip around India. Travelling in India was always on our agenda and having booked the flight from Bangkok to Mumbai last year when we were in Ecuador, there was no turning back. Given...
We arrived in India on 4th August and so far it has been a wild integration of emotions, smells, people and cultures, all rolled into a jam-packed two weeks. India has been a country that we’ve put off visiting for a number of years as a result of one thing or...
With our trip to India looming closer and closer, two weeks ago we decided to take action in respect to getting our visas sorted. At that time we still had about 7 weeks or so left in Thailand, but after reading the hassles that other travellers had with getting a...
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