We were up at 7.30 this morning, despite the time-difference. Looking out of the window, we could see that rain had fallen overnight; indeed this is the start of the monsoon season, and the temperature was hot and humid, despite our 4,300 feet altitude in the Kathmandu valley. We got ourselves sorted out and went…
So here we were, tired and grubby, with the longest part of our journey over. We had already met four other people who are doing the same escorted tour as us; this was arranged through Mercury Holidays, who we haven’t tried before. Usually we do escorted tours through Travelsphere or Titan, but the itinerary for…
At 5.00pm on Friday I walked out of the office door, with the fantastic feeling that it would be another 17 days before I returned. However, today was the day we’d been waiting for, when once again we would be jetting off to exotic locations and exciting adventures in our 84th country – this time,…
We were awake this morning well before the alarm-call, so I got up and decided to have a long, hot shower as we knew we had a long day ahead of us. We packed up our cases, labelled them and left them for collection outside our room. I felt an ominous rumbling in my nether…
It was a later start again this morning – 8.00am – but before we went along for breakfast we had to pack our cases and leave them outside for collection; we had the long journey almost back to Delhi to undergo today for our final night in India. 🙁 Afterwards we assembled in reception…
This morning we had a veritable lie-in, as our wake-up call wasn’t until 8.00am. We therefore got ourselves ready and went for a leisurely breakfast along the scented hotel corridors. One thing we’d noticed about the hotels we’d stayed in; they seemed to have a lot of oil-burners and incense sticks around, leading to a…
Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night.What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry? William Blake The early morning phone call shattered the silence once again at 05:45am and we tiredly rose and went about our business, getting washed and dressed and along to reception in time for coffee and biscuits. The…
We were awake before our early alarm call this morning at 05:45am, and we got washed and dressed and made our way to the hotel foyer where there was hot coffee, tea and biscuits on offer. We would not get our breakfast until after our safari. Everyone was in a suppressed state of excitement at…
This morning our wake-up call came at 7.30am so that we’d be packed up and ready to go after breakfast by nine o’clock. We were on the move again today, but our first stop this morning was to Fatehpur Sikri. As ever we battled our way through the frenetic streets, marvelling at the diversity of…
We had always heard that the best time to view the inimitable, world-famous Taj Mahal was at dawn, just as the sun was rising. However, our guide Peter told us that he’d seen the Taj at different times of the day and it didn’t look any different. Therefore our wake-up call this morning came at…
