Hampi part 2 in which Beth melts and sees monkeys

​Carrie and I woke up early to catch the sunrise at a temple near our guest house. After a bit of bushwhacking (we missed a turn which had nice but slippery stone stairs) we made it to the top of the rocky hill just in time to see the orange ball peek up over the...

Week two in which Beth sees naughty carvings

​We got up at an obscenely early hour I thought was the stuff of myth but here I was at 4:30 catching a taxi to the train station to Hampi. It was our first experience with the trains and it’s a very confusing complicated process. Made more confusing because we...

India part one. In which Beth stresses out.

​Well I promised to write my first blog post ages ago.  Here i am on day four having some spare time to myself at last!  I first wanted to write about my high anxiety coming into this trip. India to me has always been sort of the epitome of travel. .. a...