Global Gallivanting

Global Gallivanting

Category : Travel Blog

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......