Rishikesh was made famous by the Beatles, who stayed there when they visited India. The ashram that they stayed at is no longer active, but it is still a really interesting place to visit. It’s about an hour’s bus ride from Haridwar. When we arrived there were relief workers everywhere – tragically, that week there…
Category: India
Haridwar
Haridwar is one of the 5 holiest cities in India. It is located close to where the Ganga (Ganges) leaves the Himalayas, and is also the city where Reuben worked for an IT company for several years when he lived in India. Visiting Haridwar for Reuben is like visiting his second home! We spent a…
A quick trip to Pune
We took a bus to Pune, which is normally a three hour express bus ride from Mumbai – except we managed to get on the wrong slow bus. Six frustrating hours later we finally made it for a late lunch with Reuben’s friends Shobit and Preeti. We had a lovely overnight visit with them and…
Monsoon in Mumbai
We arrived in Mumbai fairly shattered, as our journey there had taken a long time…a matatu/matatu/ferry/matatu journey from Diani beach to Mombasa to arrive there before dark, then a four hour wait for our overnight bus, then an overnight bus ride that dropped us at Nairobi airport at 7am for a 3pm checkin, then a…
Meandering Kiwis 