India - The North (2012)

Incredible !ndia. We first travelled to India in 2012, visiting friends in Bangalore (OK, that's in the South) before flying on to Delhi* and then joining the luxurious Palace On Wheels train for a one week tour around Rajasthan and into Uttar Pradesh, visiting Jaipur*, Ranthambore, Chittaurgarh*, Udaipur, Jaisalmer*, Jodhpur*, Keoladeo* and Agra* . We then continued on to Shimla, in Himachal Pradesh in the foothills of the Himalayas, before returning to spend more time in Delhi and Bangalore (see map). What a colourful, vibrant, bustling, varied and historical country! We've only scraped the surface, so we will be back - and armed with more than a bridge camera that these photos were taken with! This album has photos of some of the different temples, palaces, forts and monuments that we saw - many historical and some contemporary. (* = UNESCO World Heritage Site)