{"id":285,"date":"2011-06-11T19:01:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/?p=285"},"modified":"2011-06-13T19:08:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T18:08:48","slug":"hopefully-the-final-route-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/285\/hopefully-the-final-route-plan","title":{"rendered":"(Hopefully) The Final Route Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Final Route<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s only now, with less than 7 weeks to go, that our route plan has been finalised. Well, as finalised as a trip to India could ever be, especially in monsoon season.<\/p>\n

There’s been quite a few changes: we’ve completely changed our plan from going to Ladakh (next time eh?); we’ve change the route from Delhi to Mumbai several times; we’re focusing on different towns than we had planned for (Hampi being the new key focus).<\/p>\n

Unfortunately our multiple plan changes have sadly meant that we won’t be able to meet up with some people we’d originally planned to see. I’m really sorry to let down people but somethings just can’t be helped; we’re on a tight timescale as it is to see all the things we want to see.<\/p>\n

So, the final route is here. It’s only likely to change if we’re forced to make changes due to the monsoon, illness or other issues. The interactive route plan is available by viewing the page The Route<\/a> (linked at the top).<\/p>\n

Day 1, arrive at Delhi just before midnight
\nDay 2, Delhi sightseeing, meet up with friends for dinner
\nDay 3, Delhi sightseeing, meet up with more friends for dinner
\nDay 4, Delhi sightseeing, meet up with more friends for dinner
\nDay 5, early train to Amritsar, see Wagah border ceremony and then see the Golden Temple at night
\nDay 6, sightseeing in Amritsar, Golden Temple again, evening train back to Delhi
\nDay 7, early morning train to Gwalior
\nDay 8, early visit to Gwalior Fort before heading off to Orchha, sightseeing enroute. Staying at a homestay<\/a> that night
\nDay 9, Orchha and staying at homestay again
\nDay 10, Orchha again, but a different hotel tonight
\nDay 11, Orchha during the day, overnight train to Aurangabad in the evening
\nDay 12, Arrive Aurangabad for lunch, sightseeing in the afternoon if we managed to get some sleep on the train!
\nDay 13, Ajanta (if our train on Day 11 is cancelled I’ve booked a backup train, as the distance – 987kms!<\/strong> – is so great, it’ll be hard to do any other way.)
\nDay 14, Ellora caves
\nDay 15, Daulatabad and Aurangabad, overnight train to Hyderabad
\nDay 16, sightseeing
\nDay 17, more sightseeing
\nDay 18, even more sightseeing, overnight train to Hospet\/Hampi
\nDay 19, sightseeing in Hampi
\nDay 20, Hampi
\nDay 21, Hampi
\nDay 22, Hampi
\nDay 23, Hampi
\nDay 24, early train to Goa, passing the mighty Dudhsagar Falls
\nDay 25, chilling in Goa
\nDay 26, long day train to Mumbai along the beautiful Konkan Railway
\nDay 27, sightseeing in Mumbai
\nDay 28, fly home after lunch \ud83d\ude41 <\/p>\n

So I make that 5 day trains and 3 overnight trains and a distance of 4409 kilometres<\/strong> – that’s over 2700 miles. You’d think that total distance on the trains would cost a lot wouldn’t you? Well, we’re going in the near top class on the railways and for all four of us the total cost is \u00a3377 pounds…how far would that get you in England?<\/p>\n

I was going to list a few of the things that we’re really looking forward to doing\/seeing on this holiday but it just be a list like above, listing the monuments or whatever that each place is famous for.I guess I’m looking forward to meeting some of the people that I’ve “spoken” to for ages on IndiaMike and Facebook: people always make travel, not places.<\/p>\n

If I had to list one sole thing that I want to see then it would have be the Golden Temple at Amritsar<\/a>. We’re really going out of our way to see it but it was on the original plan for the Ladakh trip and we were gutted at the thought of dropping it entirely from the itinerary. That’s why we’re doing an one night getaway which involves a 1000km roundtrip with two 6 hour trains.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s only now, with less than 7 weeks to go, that our route plan has been finalised. Well, as finalised as a trip to India could ever be, especially in monsoon season. There’s been quite a few changes: we’ve completely changed our plan from going to Ladakh (next time eh?); we’ve change the route from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning","category-travel","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-kev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}