The rest of the journey...
At 18:46 on 29-01-2009 thekiwi said...
Ok, so, since Gareth is the worst blogger in history, I've been left with the responsibility of updating you all with what happened for the rest of the trip. Whilst it won't be too concise, I'll try to write the best parts. At some point I'll edit together a small video and upload that but that may take a while. Anyway, here we go... Day 5: We made it a total of 47km from Hyderabad. Woooo go us! Most of the day was spent mucking around doing nothing, after eating about billion pieces of toast for breakfast. We visited some craft markets which had closed a day earlier, and the few stalls left still tried to rip us off. But it was interesting nevertheless. As we left Hyderabad, we had to first figure out how to get OUT of the city, and this was the biggest challenge, luckily we made it. And by sunset, we'd travelled 47km north to a small town named Medchal, where we decided to hole up for the night. We took our rickshaws across the road to get them serviced, hopefully reducing the chance of breakdown, and we chilled at the hotel. The dinner was (in my opinion) the best I had the entire trip, while Gareth and Dan enjoyed polishing off a bottle of Royal Challenge. Day 6: We tried to do a record drive to get to Nagpur. Unfortunately, due to the wonderful service provided by children in Medchal, the other guys' rickshaws all broke down. Not ours though! Rick kept on trucking! Regardless of this, we didn't make it all the way. We covered 407km before having to stop in Hinganghat. This was voted all round as the WORST town we stayed in. The hotel cost 220 rupees for a twin room. Thats just over £3. And...[Read More] |