Wednesday 17 April 19. So, we made it to Aizawl a bit sooner than we had expected but that sort of worked in our favour. As Easter weekend was coming up and this is a really very staunch Christian region, from Friday onwards a lot of shops, government departments, etc would be on shorter working […]

Agartala to Ambassa. Saturday 13 April. 86 hot, sweaty and bloody hard kilometres! While the Brexit shenanigans rage on in the U.K., the political focus in India is their parliamentary election, which is by far the world’s biggest democratic election.  With 900 million eligible voters, it’s 4 times the size of the US election and […]

Of all the countries we have visited so far Bangladesh has by far been the most surprising. Though we had little evidence of what the county or its people would be like, our pre-visit impression was that it would be a means-to-an-end to get new Indian visas, a country we would “endure” rather than “enjoy” […]

So, we had one last afternoon and evening with Arif.  I  suppose we could have gone for another bike ride, but we spend a lot of time on our bikes and it seemed like a nicer idea to have a wander around Sylhet on foot. Arif came with us and acted as our guide so […]