Final day in India
2019年10月30日, インド ⋅ ☁️ 29 °CWe are returning to Delhi from Jaipur for our return flights home but stopping halfway overnight to stay at Patan Mahal in a rural past of India. We arrived in the village of Patan where we had toもっと詳しく
We are returning to Delhi from Jaipur for our return flights home but stopping halfway overnight to stay at Patan Mahal in a rural past of India. We arrived in the village of Patan where we had toもっと詳しく
We had a couple of days in Jaipur with sightseeing only in the mornings and then we had the rest of the day to ourselves which was very nice.
Jaipur is much nicer than Delhi - less population, lessもっと詳しく
We left Ranthambore for Jaipur on their festival Diwali, the Hindu equivalent of Christmas. Our guide organised for us to join in the Diwali celebrations by driving through the city in open top jeepsもっと詳しく
After leaving Agra we travelled to Fatehpur Sikri, a 16th century down which was supposed to be the capital however it was abandoned after only 14 years because the water supply ran out. It remainsもっと詳しく
Of course, when talking about visiting India, the first thing to come to mind is the Taj Mahal- today was the day!
As this was a rail journey tour, we left Delhi on the Gatimaan Express, a highもっと詳しく
After our eat like a local tour we decided to spend the next day taking it easy within the confines of the hotel. Our India tour doesn't officially start until the evening when we meet the tour groupもっと詳しく
We had a day to fill in and had booked a local tour with hotel pick up to explore the Chandni Chowk market area/ try street food.
It was an experience! First the driver who picked us up barely spokeもっと詳しく
We stayed an extra day in Nairobi, same hotel but this time with views over the national park - perfect! Saturday was spent waiting around at the hotel as our flight was not until nearly 11pm. Arrivedもっと詳しく
Not to mention the beautiful birds in Africa, from the lilac breasted roller, kingfishers and bee eaters, to the secretary bird and a multitude of herons and egrets. There are many not so pretty birdsもっと詳しく
So we come to the end of safari drives in Africa - what more could we possibly see? As it turns out there were a couple more things that we had not already seen, mainly to do with lions.
We cameもっと詳しく