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28 March 2019
We arrived in our 12th capital city of our tour, Dhaka, on Friday 22nd March into Sadarghat port. This is normally one of the city’s busiest areass but because it was around 7am on a Friday, which is the start of their weekend and a day of prayer for the mainly Muslin population, it […]
19 March 2019
We spent a total of 107 days in India, of which we were on the road for 74 of those days, covering 5,773km and averaging 78km per day. When we were planning this trip India was definitely where we thought our adventure would really begin – and we were right. To a certain extent we […]
18 March 2019
Cuttack to Bhadrak. 10 March. 103km. We were on the road by 7am, feeling guilty for having had to wake Bapu up to say good bye, but we had a big day to cover and wanted to be on the road early – and as has been the case recently we were already sweating […]
10 March 2019
We mentioned the Royal Enfield motorcycle in a previous post as the bike that most men in India aspire to own. However, they are expensive and there’s a waiting list to get one! Though we see these motorcycles often, the numbers are nothing in comparison to the gazillions of Honda/Heros that there are on the […]
8 March 2019
Derrekasa to Rajnandgaon. 75 km. 2 March. After a breakfast of poha and chai we got a tribal farewell from Ushakiran and her sister. We were sad to leave them and their lovely peaceful way of life – and they wanted to know when we would be back, so they obviously didn’t mind […]
2 March 2019
A quick note on the present political situation between India and Pakistan. The current tension is a long way away from where we currently and we are heading in the opposite direction, so we don’t feel worried or unsafe in anyway. But we are keeping up to date with it all, and should things change […]