Published by World of Cruising, UK

Take a trip down the mighty Brahmaputra and discover some of India’s most amazing sights, says Jane Archer. I have just bitten into the hottest chilli in the world. It’s the kind of thing I feel you have to do in India when challenged and I’m not sure what I expected when I accepted but it wasn’t a feeling of, well, nothing. One second, two seconds. Friends watched for a reaction. I reached for my icy-cold beer… River cruisers will know the joy of visiting vineyards, medieval towns, Baroque cathedrals, Breweries and Christmas markets as they sail the waterways of Europe, but as I am fast discovering, things are a bit different on this cruise