By the time we left, I had become a little attached to Munnar despite it’s general lack of charm. I also felt like Velu (the guesthouse’s manager) and I had formed some sort of friendship. As Marisa mentioned, he let me help him make dinner a couple nights and we talked about his kids and…

It was kind of nice to return to a city after our wildlife outing in Ranthambore. Jaipur, I think, was maybe the best choice for that return. It felt cleaner, quieter, and more manageable than the others we had visited. Part of that might be due to the fact that despite being founded in 1727,…

The next two places we visited, Ranthambore and Jaipur, are almost perfect opposites. One is a rural town that abutts a national park full of wildlife and natural beauty. The other is one-third of India’s Golden Triangle, the three main cities that bring tourists to the northern part of the country (Agra and New Delhi…

Our next destination following Bodhgaya was Agra. We had heard Agra was not a great city and that people basically only traveled there for the Taj Mahal. This did not make us  terribly excited to go there, but I had been really disappointed to miss seeing the Taj Mahal when we were in India four…

Fear not! We have not been silent on the blog because Delhi has sucked out our souls and slipped us into a deep despair, but because we have been busy traveling throughout North India. The quality of our internet has also dramatically decreased since arriving on this continent, which makes it harder to upload pictures…