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Driving to varanasi

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Next morning we started driving early after a nice sunrise breakfast on the roof top which was special. Had limited choices as the breakfast timing was different but we were satisfied with some nice juice and toasts . Erica got some omelette too and she looked content :-)  Then we started and right before we started we saw a little boy snack charmer right outside the exit door of hotel. He looked very sweet but with a cobra :p oops , Erica quickly came into car as snake is not her favrouite thing to see in the morning haha  We started and roads were quite good. Sometimes Erica told me how the way looked similar to some part of USA and the view was changing very quickly. After some nice rough rides as well we arrived in smooth road but i always tried to take the smaller ways as highways are same everywhere around the world ;-) Once we stopped at the railway crossing and it was taking long long time. So i came out of car to bring Erica and myself some drinks. Whi...

Khajuraho and Varanasi trip with Erica

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After those days in delhi i drove to agra and had a wonderful dinner with Erica, her mother and sister. It was a wonderful dinner with lots of laugh and fun.  Next day after  Taj Mahal and Agra fort visit  i started driving to Khajuraho with Erica as her mom and sister were flying off next day , Erica still had some extra time to do  khajuraho/varanasi trip .  Our drive was quite long but we made some really nice stops for some food and later also a 'D' tour to a nice village area which was kind of highlight for Erica.  Here are some pics of this day as well :-  https://tarunsadventureholidays.wordpress.com/2017/04/13/khajuraho-varanasi-trip-with-erica/ Next day we took it very easy and started our day with beautiful breakfast and walk around Khajuraho temples and streets. Which was amazing for Erica as she didn’t see anything like that before. She was enjoying her  trip in India .  In the evening we had beautiful dinner on the...

Another wonderful day for American family in India.

On 4th April 2017 i picked up Erica, Beth and Liz from the airport. They found me via our tripadvisor page  Adventure Holidays . They were mother and daughters, they arrived in delhi after two days of sightseeing in Mumbai via plane, I suggested them to come to the centre via delhi express metro instead of car as there is so much traffic usually during working days. So they took my advice and it was wonderful beginning for them that way.  When we arrived at the centre station i already called our family driver Bhupendra who was waiting for us. From there i took them to office for payment and then a nice walk around the centre of delhi + some underground markets which is missed by lots of travellers. Then i took them to lotus temple, India gate, president house and then for annoce lunch at a local restaurant. Which was their favrouite and they enjoyed the food a lot. After food another little walk to have some nice local chai at the side of the street w...
Been such a long time again but finally have a moment when it's hard to fall asleep after a little nap during day time. This trip has been absolutely fantastic and after wonderful tea plantations around Munnar, beautiful houseboat experience in Allepy it was time for me to leave Ercilia back to airport in kochi  on 24th Sept , it was a bit sad moment as she is my new Portuguese mom :p but I know I will see her again for some other part of India.  I had two spare days and didn't know what to do. I planned to do couch-surfing to experience a real local home instead of staying in a hotel before i picked up Aidan. What a cool experience that was, I loved each moment and the guy Who hosted me was wonderful as his family. His mother was so lovely , it really just felt like being in home. I met two other Chinese girls staying with him that day and planned to go around altogether with a little visit to Vw service centre for a little service as after i picked up Aidan it was going...
Aarti was beautiful as always and after Aarti even the walk to the hotel was wonderful. Next day I hired a Scooty ( moped thing ) :p and took Ercilia to Vashistha caves and we took Ganges bath which was so relaxing as always and obviously after massage of this morning, it was even better haha we had some nice lunch later and took her for ride towards one of the off road I knew, after a while we took a u turn so that I can take her to my off road sunset view point but she was too afraid to go on that hight so we took another u turn and came back to Rishikesh. On the way we did get some crazy rain, when we got back I asked if we could hire a motorbike for the next day, we did and after a nice sleep. Next day I took Ercilia for a motorbike ride to Bharat falls and some nice valley view area which was the most beautiful. I am sure she had fun as she looked like she didn't wanted to leave. This day after noon we drove back to village and stayed their for a day and next day morning ba...
Took really long but i have been busy with my own trips and being sick but finally after recovering the work starts. I am currently on a tour with Ercilia, she is from Portugal and she got my contact from Angie, Angie is like my mom from UK, she traveled around north of India with me and we did a special ceremony of putting her dad's ashes in Ganges which makes it even more special. Now Ercilia's main aim to visit India was to put her friend Mark booth's ashes in the Ganges in a nicer way with all the rituals. She arrived in delhi on 1st Sept, I met her at the airport and felt like i knew her already as we had so much talk on emails before she arrived. We had a nice cup of chai in office before starting and as its always nice to clear the payment out of the way, that's what i did and later took her home.  She enjoyed being with family and her nice sleep that night. She shared the room with Sapna (my sister), as her bag was lost in Dubai airport, so we had to ...

Few Days in delhi with new vw car and then on a trip with Pam.

Sorry for late post, did not have time and when had time was thinking about how to get the website work as some crazy virus took over website and google god will now allow anyopen to open website but finally the site works again www.adventureholidaytours.com After my last trip i got my new VW car and its a nice decent car, i loved it and as well as Pam my other guest from canada loved it as well and thought it was awesome way to travel around india :-) You can also give a look to Pam's blog its  http://pamkocz.tumblr.com/ we had such a wonderful time together, she spend two days in village area then another two days in rishikesh which was really nice and we also did the caves and that off road i always do. This was a bit hard for pam as she doesn't like heights very much but we managed and she loved it all. It was actually a very similar trip to the last one that i did with Michelle and her daughter Kim, just the difference was i was dropping Pam in amritsar as her husb...