Three weeks have flown by and we can hardly believe we only have a week left in India to explore the final state we'll see this trip: Kerala. This part of India is perhaps most famous for the beaches and its backwaters (a series of lagoons and lakes which some people describe as the Venice of the East although I suspect the people that do this haven't actually been to Venice).

After enjoying our time in Udaipur, we readied ourselves for the internal flight that would take us to Mumbai. An hour an a half in the air, with Jet Airways, and we were ready to touch down in Mumbai, or Bombay as it was called whilst under British rule….

We bid our taxi/tour guide farewell and felt a sense of relief fall upon us. Ultimately the tour had been nice: our driver for the last six days, KP, had made us laugh; shown us a lot of sights and given us a lot of great tips, but as…

Leaving the moderate safety and security of our hotel, we found ourselves on the streets of New Delhi, people, mopeds, rickshaws, tuk-tuks, taxis, cows, goats, street vendors, pickpockets, and not another tourists face in sight.

We had a mission: to buy train tickets for the rest of our adventure in…