When I was planning this trip I planned the timing around two things; the Nepal trekking season and Holi. Initially I thought, Varanasi. Yeah. That seems like it'd be a cool place to celebrate Holi, and indeed it is. Unless you're female because it all gets a little bit rapey. One bloke I was in [...]
I'm not entirely sure that my body clock loves Varanasi as much as I do, especially since I dragged myself out of bed for a second sunrise. It's so worth it though. A few of us wanted to head down to Assi Ghat to watch the morning aarti which is much smaller than the main [...]
"Meh. Varanasi. No strong opinions either way..." ...Said no one ever. I braced myself for Varanasi, I'd been told that you either love it or hate it, there was no in between in one of Hinduism's holiest cities. Varanasi was where one Danish bloke I met concluded that you don't come to India to enjoy [...]
I was hoping I could just sneak in a cheeky little photo blog for Khajuraho and be done with it because I thought it'd just be a bunch of pretty temples adorned with a spot of casual porn and I could simply snigger my way around them like the child I am then upload all [...]
Seriously India, I love you but you sure do like to punish people for last minute plan changes, and it was a last minute plan change that had me thoughtfully munching my way through a masala dosa whilst trying to decide if I'd rather spend the next 48 hours of my life either on or [...]
Way before that Jesus bloke cropped up shouting about being the son of god or some shit, men with hammers and chisels were hacking elaborate caves into rock faces in the name of much older religions. Ajanta caves date back to around the 2nd century BC and the younger Ellora caves started being created around [...]
One of my favourite things to wake up to, apart from breakfast in bed consisting of a large pile of bacon and half a cheesecake, is the cry of "Chaaiiii chaaiiii garam chaiiii garam garam chaiiii garam" as the chai wallah makes his way up and down overnight public transport offering up tiny ₹10 cups [...]
Hampi consists mainly of granite boulders which Michael pretty much couldn't get over. Granite is proper expensive in Europe and here they just use roughly cut slabs as make shift fences like it was cheap plywood or some shit. Granite boulders are also good for climbing up. I've only ever been climbing indoors before, we [...]
Hampi is what happens when you take a bunch of aesthetically pleasing stuff and chuck it all together in a manner that makes it really hard to keep your jaw from scraping on the floor in an undignified manner. I shit you not, your eyeholes won't cope. It's not just the boulders and the ruins [...]
I'm not gonna lie, I didn't really have a fucking clue what canyoning was when I purchased the extra insurance necessary to allow me to do it and have my medical bills paid should I end up in a full body cast or missing a body part or two. I just knew it was doable [...]
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