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Our taxi driver for the day turned up in an eighties style car that looked moderately road worthy. He drove at a snail’s pace. I’m not sure if that was because the car wasn’t capable of being driven any faster or because the driver had taken to heart my request for slow and careful driving.… Read more

After a night’s sleep we felt more energetic. We decided to take things relatively easy and walk up to the Peace Pagoda/ Shanti Stupa. It was a pleasant walk through a peaceful area of town, not far from our hotel. We spotted a bakery with delicious looking cakes, but decided to press on to the… Read more

We planned to have an easy first day in Leh. Our first job was to hand our laundry in. There are numerous cheap places to get this done in Leh, which makes me very happy. Then we headed into the centre of town and visited a German bakery that was highly recommended on google maps.… Read more

We headed to Manali bus station at about 9am the next morning. The man in the booth told us that the next bus to Keylong would be leaving at 10:30am and that we could buy tickets once we had boarded. That gave us time to go and have some breakfast at our favourite coffee shop… Read more

We spent a day lazing around our hotel ordering room service and shopping in Manali after our trek finished. Tim bought some new walking shoes as his had fallen apart and we tried in vain to find some sleeping bag liners. This was because in the cheap hotels in Himachal Pradesh and probably also in… Read more

I found out about Indiahikes when I was walking in Hastings Country Park. Tim and I got chatting to a fellow walker, an Indian national who was working as a doctor in the Dartford area. He told us that if we were planning to go trekking in India, Indiatreks had the best reputation and safety… Read more

It turned out that we had a lucky break with our trip from Chandigarh to Manali – although it didn’t initially feel like it. The reception of The Cama Hotel in Chandigarh ordered us a taxi to take us to the bus station, which was only a five minute drive away. The bus station seemed… Read more

We stayed at Heathrow for the night before our early morning flight to India. That gave us a chance to visit the Ed Atkins exhibition at Tate Britain. To start off with I didn’t enjoy it, but when I reached the later galleries I found some of the art very moving. I was particularly affected… Read more

We had a few days to spend in Bangkok before we flew home. It is such a vast city that I could go back time and again and still find new sights to see and things to do. We spent a rainy day visiting MOCA art gallery – Bangkok is full of galleries and this… Read more

Tim and I have lots of fond memories of Ko Phangan. We have been there together twice before, both off season trips. The first time I visited was August 1996, at the end of my first holiday to south-east Asia. I travelled with Tim down through Thailand and Malaysia to Indonesia and back. The second… Read more