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Agra, Home To The ‘Jewel Of India’; The Magnificent Taj Mahal
Agra doesn’t ring any bells with most people but that’s because Agra itself as a city is just that, it’s just another Indian city with some interesting Mughal architecture dotted along the banks of the Yamuna River. However, every year more than 2.5million...
Khajuraho and Orchha; Mughal Palaces, Erotic Temples and a 5 Leg Cow
Khajuraho is a small town situated in India’s most central state, Madhya Pradesh. While life in Kahajuraho’s old town is a simple existence for the some 19,000 locals, ‘new Khajuraho’ is essentially a single street lined with guest-houses, shops and restaurants which...
5 Days In Varanasi: Staying In The Old City On The Banks Of The Ganges
“It’s filthy and smelly but really cool all the same”, “I saw a dead body float by our boat”, “don’t touch the water”, “it was the only place in India we got sick”, these were the reports we had heard from friends and other travellers prior to our arrival in the holy...
Sights Of Delhi, India – Forts, Tombs, Mosques And Chaos!
Throughout our travels, we have met a lot of people, all with tales of how crazy Delhi can be. Some stories were more positive than others however, the common theory seemed to be ‘get in, see the sights of Delhi and get out’. We always take other people’s...
Ashram Stay Rishikesh, Near Where The Beatles Wrote The White Album
Rishikesh is a holy Indian city set along the banks of the Ganges river and people come from all over India to pay homage to Ganga, the river goddess. During the Shivaratri festival Indians come from near and far to gather the river’s blessed water and bring it back...
Haridwar During The Shivaratri Festival With 17Million Indian Pilgrims
Taking the cheapest public bus from Shimla to Haridwar in hindsight probably wasn’t the best idea we’ve ever had. Sitting around the bus station before the sun had even come up we waited and waited and were beginning to worry we had missed the bus when all of a...
Shenanigans in Shimla: One Day in India’s Old Summer Capital
The streets around the bus stand at the famous colonial hill station of Shimla in Himachal Pradesh were quiet when our bus rolled in in the early hours of the morning. We had hardly slept on the overnight bus trip and being ripped off, followed and pestered was the...About Us
We're Brian and Noelle, an adventurous Irish couple who live to travel. We left Ireland in 2009 to teach English in South Korea and have become full-time nomads. Read More...
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