Somewhere along the way, geography and maths got the better of us and somehow slipped from our otherwise meticulous planning. Where we’d initially calculated the car journey between our Karnataka and Kerala lodgings to take a lazy six hours (nice and easily doable, even at a snail’s pace), the day before leaving Coorg we realised…
Today started with a flying visit to Junagarh Fort, a much smaller baby brother of Mehrangarh, but another hugely impressive example of Rajasthani architecture. Hand-carved from red sandstone and fine marble, ivory and silver, the intricate floral paintings throughout the interior gave its courtyards, halls and balconies a distinctive sense of pretty, not the very…