Category Archives: Martin & Jon do India

And so it came to pass… The combined adventures of Martin Raj-Mahaly and Jonathan Chapatison Lee-Ji came to an end on the 8th of May, 2010 in a dusty back alley at the Smyle Inn, Pahar Ganj, New Delhi, India. … Continue reading →

After epic hill-walking and epic festival-going we decided to relax for a few days before the train ride back to Delhi… Kannur was where we ended up. It didn’t have much of a description in the guide book apart from … Continue reading →

We arrived in Thrissur in the night, battered from bare-foot hill climbing and 3 days of village curries (my feet were cut all over and the size of balloons; Martin had a major case of Delhi belly). The massive Trissur … Continue reading →

And so the adventure continued… We found a guide and headed off into the wild. Rajiv was a sturdy, George Clooney-style mountain man, seemingly unshakeable in his amazing knowledge of the local plants, trees and wildlife, his simple life philosophy … Continue reading →

Ootacamund, or ‘Ooty’ is an ex-British colonial hill station from which Southern India used to be governed during the hot Summer months, fuelled by acres of surrounding tea plantations. In recent times it’s become a typical crazily busy Indian town … Continue reading →

Kerala is famed for its backwaters so or next stop was Kollam where we hoped to charter a houseboat to drift in style through the peace of the mangroves and palm forests.  After much negaotiation we found oursleves in a small punt … Continue reading →

All this traveling about is hard work so we decided to take a well earned holiday and go to the tropical beaches of Kerala. We got a train ticket from a local travel agent who told us the journey would … Continue reading →

We were to be in Delhi for the Easter weekend so decided to mark it in the most English (and yet very Indian) way possible. It started with a nostalgic Wimpy burger on Saturday (Wimpy Biriyanis also available). On Easter … Continue reading →

We’ve just got back from the Kumbh Mela bathing fair – a supersized Glastonbury, but replacing music and drugs with religion and drugs. It takes place every 12 years in Haridwar, a small town on the Ganges and is the … Continue reading →

After a brief stopover back in Delhi we took a bumpy, death-defying seven hour bus ride up to Rishikesh. Our main mission was to visit the Kumbh Mela bathing festival in nearby Haridwar, our sub-mission was to relax in the … Continue reading →