Author : Anna

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Anna is a travel writer, yoga lover, and digital nomad who has been traveling full time for over 10 years. She has visited over 40 countries and lived in the UK, Australia, Thailand, Bali and Goa, India. Her travel blog, Global Gallivanting, is packed with useful and authentic travel guides, tips and stories to help other travellers plan their own adventures.

Highlights of India

Anna
India is such an amazingly diverse country which challenges and frustrates and rewards and surprises a visitor in equal measures. With so many surprises and magical experiences it is hard to pick 5 of my top experiences here are my highlights of India: 1.  Love, Music and Colour I was......

Elephanta Island and Caves

Anna
When we arrived in Mumbai in the late afternoon, after another long, uncomfortable overnight train ride, I felt relieved and also slightly sentimental that we had finished our last railway journey in India. This time around we had no problems getting on the stupendously overcrowded suburban commuter trains that had......

Back to Bombay

Anna
Indian trains are cheap and a great way to met local people while gazing out at the surrounding countryside but they are also painfully slow, dirty, crowded and uncomfortable. The train  to Bombay trundled slowly across the Rajasthani desert through the night and as I awoke the scenery outside had......

Udaipur – Rajasthan’s most romantic and beguiling destination

Anna
Udaipur – Rajasthan’s most romantic and beguiling destination Udaipur is often described as the most romantic place in India and Udaipur started to enchant me from the moment I arrived off an overnight sleeper train with a magical, purple hued sunrise that glowed over the shimmering lake blowing away cobwebs......

Jaipur – Pink Cities, Palaces and Primates

Anna
The ‘Pink City’ of Jaipur completes India’s touristic “golden triangle.” Jaipur is the capital of India’s most flamboyant and colourful state of Rajasthan. The old city was northern India’s first planned city, founded by Jai Singh II in 1727, and is an exercise in symmetry with streets laid out in......