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22 December 2018
Jodhpur is quite a bit smaller than Jaipur and although its centre is hectic in an Indian way, it’s not on the same scale. We have both taken a shine to it even if we did both get pooped on by pigeons within the first hour! Jodhpur is named after Rao Jodha, a Rajput chief, […]
18 December 2018
Jaipur to Kishangarh – 95km We had one final lovely breakfast with Manuma and Jassika before setting out on the first leg of our journey to Jodhpur. Our aim for the day was to get close to the town of Kishangarh, which would hopefully put us in a good position for the next few days. […]
14 December 2018
Jaipur is known as the pink city because when Queen Victoria came to visit in 1876, the entire city was painted pink – the colour of hospitality. And it’s still pretty pink – as well as a lot cleaner and less chaotic than Delhi! On our first night here, we learned so much about Jaipur […]
12 December 2018
Dehli —-> Bhiwadi. Saturday 8 Dec. 90km. We left Delhi on Saturday morning, more excited to be on our bikes than anything else. Our week there had given us a certain comfort level with the traffic so although we knew it would be crazy it didn’t completely scare us. We had planned to take the main […]
8 December 2018
Though we haven’t been to India before we thought that we had a fair idea of what it might be like from seeing it on television as there have been a lot of programmes about it recently in the UK. While this is a starting point, it doesn’t in any way prepare you for the […]
7 December 2018
When we leave Delhi on Saturday we will have been here for a week and rather than detailing exactly what we did we have put together a quick précis which really just a picture gallery! There is just so much going on here (population-wise it’s at least the size of Istanbul). We booked a driver, […]