DAY ONE… Sitting in Mumbai airport. It’s a kind of transitional space between two worlds; the world we’ve come from and the world we are going to. Here it is…
DAY 02… Arriving in Dwarka
DAY TWO… Our train experience was good. It was nice to have a whole first class berth to ourselves. We had done this to get our bikes on the train,…
DAY 03… Dwarka
DAY THREE… We have successfully packed up our pink cycle bags and the bubble wrap protection into a box we managed to scrounge from some shop stall’s recycling, and we…
DAY 04… Dwarka to Porbandar
DAY FOUR… 63.44 miles (102.10 km) This morning we rose at 6am for a set off at 6.30am. Not to be…. the bike lock had jammed and we could not…
DAY 05… Porbandar to Madhavpur Beach
DAY FIVE… 39.60 miles (63.73 km) Porbandar has actually nothing to recommend it, except that it was the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi. It’s a filthy town. The streets are covered…
DAY 06… Madhavpur Beach to Sasan Gir
DAY SIX… 50.28 miles (80.92 km) We rise at 6am, plan to leave by 6.30am (dawn). First chai is at 7am (not a stop), then its cycling as far as…
DAY 07… Sasan Gir
DAY SEVEN We have decided to go on a birding walk. Amil, our guide is an orphan from Nagarkot in Nepal. No schooling but he has learnt so much through…
DAY 08… Sasan Gir to Junagadh
DAY EIGHT… 31.93 miles (51.38 km) The heat is the main difficulty with our ride. It is getting up to 38c or 40c by 1pm, and only starts to cool…
DAY 09… Junagadh & Girnar Hill
DAY NINE Alysun’s words…. Violent episode of diarrhoea at 4am and after, maybe due to water at the hotel ? It had me grounded for the day. Tim went off…
DAY 10… Junagadh to Gondal
DAY TEN… 38.94 miles (62.67 km) We cycled out of Junagadh as more bus loads of pilgrims were arriving to join the crowds of over a million. It was dawn…