Tucked away in the far north of Karnataka’s coastline is the little Hindu pilgrimage town of Gokarna, a peaceful town with plenty to offer. Compared with other beach towns this quaint town certainly has more of a ‘real’ Indian feel to it, with cows strolling idly...
Even though Goa is the smallest state in India, it is probably one of the most visited as it’s the country’s beach capital. Goa has been drawing people from all over India and all over the world to it’s beautiful, palm-fringed coastline for decades. It had been over...
Famous around the world, Mumbai is an iconic city, once a major trading port and the principal supplier of cotton to Britain during the American Civil War. Bombay, as it was known at the time, hosted the first Indian National Congress back in 1885 and Gandhi launched...
A number of tour companies in Mumbai run a controversial Dharavi Slum tour. The massive Mumbai slum, made famous in the Channel 4 film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, (although only about ten minutes of the film was actually filmed in the slum). Reality Tours and Travel is the...
Auto-rickshaws have almost been a way of life for us in India, whether it’s been dodging them in the busy bazaars or risking our lives in them getting from a to b, they’ve been an integral part of our Indian experience thus far. Jumping off the train in Hospet...
India is very much divided into north and south and this is no more prevalent than in the attitudes of the locals themselves who are so proud to be from where they are from. Having spent the last three months moving around northern India, we had grown accustomed to...
Aurangabad is located in central India, in India’s third biggest state, Maharashtra. We planned on using Aurangabad as a springboard to explore two World Heritage Sites; the ancient Ellora Caves and the magnificent Buddhist caves of Ajanta. However, on reaching...
On the banks of the holy Godavari River is Nasik, a town of 1.2million people and an important spiritual place for Hindus. Nasik is one of four locations which host the Kumbh Mela, the largest religious gathering on earth, every twelve years. The festival is held...
