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Days 102-103: Continuing on our whirlwind tour of the Golden Triangle, we made it to Jaipur.
(This looked touch and go for a while when our car sustained a flat tyre just outside a tiny village en route and we were swamped by curious locals. As is usual in situations such as these, conversations about […]

Day 103: Jaipur’s astronomical (and astrological) observatory was a unique “theme park” devoted to measuring various heavenly bodies. Dating to 1728 it houses a collection of large instruments pointing upwards, including what’s claimed to be the largest sundial in the world (accurate to 2 seconds, which is more than can be said of my alarm […]

Andrew writes: Since last post (Kevin07: Taking it to the Taj Mahal) we’ve been on the road and out of touch, so you can imagine it was quite a shock to find that we’d become the target of some pretty hateful conservative bloggers for daring to show our support for Kevin Rudd while we’re on […]

Day 101: While India can’t match Africa for breadth and depth of animal life in the wild, we were given some small hope by our trusty Lonely Planet India that we might be able to eyeball a tiger in Ranthambore National Park, about 3 hours drive south from Jaipur.
Loaded by the local ticket mafia into […]

Day 100: What better place to spend our hundredth day on the road than the Taj Mahal? And what better place to unveil our Kevin07 campaign gear?
Here, at the Taj Mahal, we slammed the Howard Government for wasting millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money on government advertising, called on the Prime Minister to end the […]

Day 100: It’s one of those places that words can’t describe.
I’ll always remember my first glimpse. Walking slowly through the southern archway, the full magnificence of the Taj Mahal came into view.
It’s a monument of great beauty but there is also melancholy here. The Taj is not a palace but a mausoleum. Built out […]

Days 93-95: Delhi was our starting point in India, where we met up with Kate’s student exchange pal Andrea. We bided our time here before kicking off on our road trip around Rajasthan, dropping into the Red Fort (above) and the nearby main mosque.
It was here that we started hearing the expression: “This is […]

Day 93: In Nepal, we had our first taste of the single-minded cricketing obsession of a nation. India’s victory over Pakistan in the Twenty20 World Cup final had sent India into a frenzy of celebration, and on Indian TV it was the only news for at least three days, with English language Indian news channels […]