A slow-travel journey · 30 September – 1 December 2026
India 2026
with Narda & Terrell
Because trips rarely go as planned — this is our plan for India 2026. We left Adelaide in late September, travelling with our caravan hearts but no caravan: just trains, taxis, and time.
Leg 01
Chennai
30 September – 4 October
First steps onto Indian soil for this trip — a few days by the sea before the long journey north begins.
Onward: IndiGo 6E6326 · Chennai → Kolkata · dep 11:45 am, arr 2:10 pm
Leg 02
Kolkata
4 – 25 October
The longest stay of the trip — three weeks of Bengal, written up for the blog a couple of weeks after we leave.
Onward: Flight to Mumbai · CCU dep 11:05 am, BOM arr 4:15 pm
Leg 03
Mumbai
25 October – 8 November
From the Arabian Sea to Gujarat's old city, in a First AC sleeper with chai arriving at every station.
Onward: Train #19015 Saurashtra Express · Sat 8 Nov, arrives Ahmedabad 8:43 pm
Leg 04
Ahmedabad
8 – 13 November
A week in the old city, then a slow drive north — the countryside doing what train windows never quite manage.
Onward: Car to Udaipur · 6 – 8 hours across the Rajasthan border
Leg 05
Udaipur
13 – 18 November
The lake city for five slow days, then an overnight sleeper east — waking as Rajasthan's pink capital pulls in.
Onward: Overnight train to Jaipur · #19666 dep 9:50 pm, arr 5:40 am
Leg 06
Jaipur
19 – 20 November
A short stop in the pink city — forts and bazaars squeezed between two good long train rides.
Onward: Train #14661 · dep Jaipur 9:35 am, arr Delhi Jn 4:50 – 5:05 pm
Leg 07
Delhi
20 – 26 November
The last week in India: museums, gardens, and one final round of the food we'll be talking about all winter.
Onward: Flight to Guangzhou, China · China Southern
Leg 08
Guangzhou → Adelaide
26 – 28 November
The long way home through southern China, carrying a season of stories back across the sea.
Onward: Flight to Adelaide · home by the end of November
The trip
Nine weeks, no rush
This page gathers our images and stories from Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Udaipur, Jaipur, Delhi and the places in between. The blog on neuage.me follows two to three weeks behind each city — less or more — and clips land on YouTube soon after each thingy is created.
2026 has been a year of three journeys: Thailand, the UK, the USA and Pakistan in January–May, Bali in June, and now India for October and November — the big one.
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Stops
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Trains
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Weeks
From the travel journal
Terrell has been returning to India for years, writing it down as it happens. Each leg of this trip will land as a short blog post and a video diary — the slow, unglamorous, wonderful parts included.