Exploring South of the Himalayas

  Our month-long trip in 2024 was a fortunate opportunity to undertake a reconnaisance of India, or at least a bit of India. We had never been to the country before and had no sense of how our travel would need to be planned – logistics, roads, traffic, accomodation, money, SIM, and so on. We had a week’s business in Rajasthan, and chose to arrive early and leave late, to give us around three weeks to explore. We thought that we would restrict our exploration to Rajasthan, as well as two or three days in Delhi each way, and this proved to be a wise decision.   Overview of the trip :   We arrived in Delhi and spent two days there, staying in a BnB, which proved to be located very well for access to several of the places we wanted to see.   We flew to Jodhpur, on IndiGo (an airline of which we had never heard, and which we found has over 300 aircraft and makes around 2000 flights a day!). It’s an hour’s flight and was efficient (although Delhi’s airport secu