Palolem Beach in Goa - our home for the next couple of months
After five months on the road, having ridden through sixteen countries and covered over fourteen and a half thousand miles we can finally give ourselves a bit of a rest as we have reached Goa and are planning on staying here for both Christmas and New Year until sometime in January.Since we left Agra we have been back to Delhi to pick up the bikes and from there we have ridden south stopping at Jaipur, the tiger park at Ranthambore, the abandoned city of Mandu, the ancient Buddhist caves at Ajanta, Aurangabad famous for it's "Baby Taj Mahal" and a handful of other places en route with little in the way of mainstream tourist sites but with sufficient numbers of friendly local people and glimpses of normal Indian life to have made the journey memorable, albeit, given the distance we have travelled, very tiring.
The outside of the The Hawa Mahal at Jaipur - built to allow aristocratic women the chance to stare at the masses and the every day life of Jaipur without being seen themselves
One of the three tigers we saw at Ranthambore Tiger Park 
The peaceful long abandoned ruins at Mandu
Tom forcibly meeting and greeting locals at Dhule after we msitakenly made a brief stop in the centre of town - both Tom and the bikes are in the photo if you look hard enough! A picture (completely failing to do justice) of the amazing cave sculptures inside the caves at Ajanta
The Baby Taj Mahal at Aurangabad 
Tom and Peter on the final, unexpectedly incredibly difficult to ride, stretch of road before we arrived in GoaWritten by Peter
