Buses
Trucks
Jeeps
Cars
Motorbikes
Scooters
Dogs (normal)
What is slower?
People walking
Dogs (3-legged)
Cows
5.5km/hr was a sustained speed up much of the inclines on my journey so far. It was steep, the road was broken (a "potholed road" does not give justice to its description - it was impossible to find flat sections on either side to cycle across and each little bump is like a hand pushing you back, or a finger tugging at your top), and I have been puking (I was more interested in ensuring that the liquer the guest house owner was offering me wasn't meths and didn't register him topping it up with water). Below is the classy joint I was staying in. Note the fact that there is no pipe connecting the cistern to the hole in the ground. There is also nothing under the sink, as I discovered after pouring some water down there. You can't see, but the pillow cases are of Minnie Mouse. I think it gives the whole place a homely feeling. All for the bargain price of Rps125 (a little over 2 euro).
Though the highlight was heating the water for a "shower" (in India, this means bucket). Wires straight in socket (who needs plugs?); cracked wire casing (who's scared of a bit of electricity); wires in water. Though at least a full risk assessment was conducted, and a wooden stick was used to insert and remove the wires from the bucket. This nifty method took just 10 short minutes to change water from freezing cold, to nicely toasty.
Am now in Shimla trying to recouperate after emptying my stomach contents by the side of the road 10km back. After two days of trying to push on on a nearly empty stomach (yesterday I did 55km on bad roads with just 1 samosa and 2 banannas!) I decided to cut the day short and try and eat some bland, bland continental food.
Though there is some good news. Have found out that our bid for Iranian Visas was a resounding success. PTA has come up trumps. All we've got to do is pay the fellows...
ps Let me know if the video's working. It worked in the preview, but doesn't seem to now it's been posted!
3 comments:
Makes Rosalia look like a resort. Still sounds amazing.
I can't see any video, but that could be because I am stupid and can not find it.
Keep up with the updates!!!
hey, finally got onto your blog - that is hard core travelling. Puts my sitting on a bucket under a waist high shower with other people in perspective to your death taunting electric bucket procedure! Hope you're eating well and look forward to more photos of you showering with guys in waterfalls! lol
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