The BBC’s wonderful documentary ‘The Real Marigold Hotel’ explored the possibility of retiring in India, in the busy city of Jaipur – and what a wonderful place this ‘pink’ city is. It  has a vibrancy, exuberance and eclectic quality of its own, and the haveli (old mansion house) featured on the show, is a place Angel Holidays […]

Here are some practical tips to help those travelling to India.  By now you should be well underway with vaccinations, and don’t forget to apply for the Indian Visa. What to bring You could conceivably arrive in Delhi with no luggage and buy everything you need cheaply within a few hours. So don’t be too concerned […]

With 4 months to go before our holiday to Peru, it’s nice to know that Angel Holidays is cheaper and better!  Our two week holiday is £1,390 plus flights which are currently around £840 – and dropping steadily.  Trailfinders meanwhile, with less internal flights (meaning more time sitting on a bus) are £3,100 including flights […]

For all those on our October 2014 holiday to Nepal, please find here a picture of your favourite host to our trip – Shrisana. Here she is on our visit to the look-out point at Sarankot – with the Annapurna range behind her. Shri misses you all now, and this shot was taken prior to […]

Hi to everyone and just to let you know that we’re pleased that our tour this coming October is gaining a lot of interest particularly from recommendations from previous travellers. So a big thanks to those who have held us in such high esteem! We’ll shortly feature in the Guardian newspaper too.  October once again […]

The link below takes travellers to see a range of photos taken by one of our travellers Richard from our trip last April with Angel Holidays.   Here too, is a sample of one of Richard’s photographs of a Sadhu (sanskrit meaning good or holyman)  – a religious ascetic whose aim is achieve moksa, a […]

I recently travelled to east Nepal to Ilam, the country’s tea growing district. Ilam shares its border with India and Darjeeling,  another albeit, less beautiful setting for tea. I am not sure if you can buy Illam tea in the West, but it certainly is delicious.  The photograph here, a little hazy with the pre-monsoon […]

In Nepal there is such thing as a ‘wedding season’  where there is an abundance of weddings, at least more than usual. Here is one that I was invited too, and as you can see it’s a fun affair.  Most ceremonies (particularly for Hindu marriages) are a three day event.  The first day, the bride […]

Here’s our group on our Autumn 2014 holiday to Nepal. Twenty four people from all walks of life and all ages, all thrown together on the adventure.  We’ve been on rickshaws and elephants, jeeps, dug-out canoes, bicycles and light aircraft around Everest on this trip thus far.  And we’ve all gelled together as one big […]

Nepal’s version of Christmas is just coming to an end now, the year here is 2071 and it’s the festival of Dashain.  Like Christmas it’s a great time of feasting and the coming together of families, it lasts over a week.  There are quite a lot of animal sacrifices over the period, as well as […]