From Delhi we headed up north to Amritsar, the furthest north we will get in India. Jami was the star of the train as dozens of Indian schoolgirls on a school trip loved talking to her about the US and seeing which pop singers she knew. There are two highlights in Amritsar, both of which […]

Our time in Delhi was only half tourism. The other half was trying to fix our visa issues – we realized late that our plan would overstay our Indian visa, and we had been unable to pick up a Myanmar visa in New York. Long, boring story short: bureaucratic offices are the same around the […]

Agra in Uttar Pradesh (UP) gets a bad rap. Agra is a typical Indian city filled with traffic, street vendors, dirt, smells, and roaming pigs, dogs and cows, but it was simply typical. And yes, the food there was some of the worst we had India, but that isn’t saying much since most of the […]

We had arrived in Agra, just minutes from the Taj Mahal, but we still couldn’t see the world-famous site and we decided to hold off seeing it until the next morning (sunrise is supposed to be the best time to view it). Instead, although it seemed like hearsay to not immediately go to the Taj, […]

The temples of Khajuraho were a last minute addition to our trip. We had always planned to break up the long distance between Varanasi and Agra with a stop, but after a helpful Irish couple told us that “there was nothing interesting between Varanasi and Agra” we started looking for alternatives. A little out of […]

Our first city in India happened to be India’s oldest and one of the oldest living cities in the world, dating back about 5,000 years ago. Varanasi is arguably the center of the Hindu world and Aaron and I were ready to jump head first into India: it’s culture and everything we had been excited […]

While we both had enjoyed Nepal, we were excited and nervous about heading to India.  India was one of the major destinations on our trip (we will be spending more time here than any other country), but it seemed that every time we mentioned that we were traveling to India we received a warning.  We […]