View From a Fish Tank 🇮🇳
Jon
09/10/2018
We checked in, and obviously the porters picked up our bags. But not to carry them to the room. They took them to a stretch golf cart, and asked us to take
Category: #offaroundtheworld
Boulder City 🇮🇳
Jon
08/10/2018
Try to imagine, say, the Imperial Forum in Rome, but several hundred times as big. Then imagine intricately carved temples, colossal temple gateways, ancient Hindu deities, royal palaces and vast bazaars. Now
Devaraja Market, Mysuru 🇮🇳
Helen
01/10/2018
If you’re anything like me you love looking around local markets. For me it’s often more about the people and less about what their actually selling. Although I have to say that
The Indian Driving Experience! 🇮🇳
Helen
01/10/2018
I’ve seen hair raising footage of Indian city driving on the tv so knew that I wasn’t in for a leisurely ride! Jon tells me that Mysuru is quiet and “tame” compared
Into India 🇮🇳
Jon
30/09/2018
Preparations for our Indian leg of our trip started a few weeks before we were planning to touch down. Filling in the Indian eVisa application online proved to be a slightly frustrating
The Tourism Conundrum 🇸🇨
Helen
25/09/2018
The Seychelles is an archipelago of 115 islands that lies 1600km off the east African coast. The central islands are Mahé where we stayed, Praslin and La Digue. The Seychelles arguably has
Another Patch of Paradise… 🇸🇨
Jon
21/09/2018
So, we had changed our plans. We’d decided to join an overland trip around Rajasthan on 10th October, after the monsoons had subsided. Hopefully. Already being in the middle of the Indian
Ganesh Chaturthi Festival 🇲🇺
Jon
16/09/2018
Friday 14th September. We decided to go to the beach. Why not? We were in Mauritius, it was warm and sunny and it would be our last day in Pointe aux Canonniere
A Patch of Paradise… 🇲🇺
Jon
15/09/2018
Mauritius. We arrived in the early hours, in the dark, and were met by Mr Bim, our airport pick up, to drive us across the island from the south east (where the