Right, I didn’t get off to the best of starts today, my phone AND my brand spanking new camera have decided to go walkabouts, nowhere to be seen! Clearly they didn’t want to continue on our journey to Nepal, but I’m very much gutted that they’re gone. (Don’t worry Mum, I’ll buy a new one!)
We went from Beed to Fardapur today so that we can visit the Ajanti Caves tomorrow morning and Katie managed her first whole three kilometres – okay, so we had to gaffa-tape her to the driver’s seat but she was actually very good, not quite ripe for the busy town though and so Gordon took hold of the handlebars once more towards a place that sounds like orangutan, where I then took control!
India’s landscape is so varied and usually offers sights that you have never seen before, but today the terrain was much more familiar and reminded me of the Salisbury Plains in Wiltshire, proving this country has more to offer than we may yet realise.
After accidentally stepping in Katie’s outdoor ‘pee puddle’ with my left foot, I managed a whole seven steps until my right foot slid in a fresh cow pat, but you can’t let a small thing like faeces get in your way in India, so we got back in the rickshaw! We stopped by a local market in the middle of nowhere and I bought a Ganesh sticker for our beloved vehicle, as the holy figure is meant to clear your path of obstacles, but tell that to the cow that decided to run across the our path as I was hooning it down the road at 60 km/h! Luckily I managed to manouvre around it and we found our way to Fardapur, but Holy Cow! What a day!
Hahahaha ! Very bloomy entry - what do you need photos for ? Sounds awesome, wish i could be there ! klm, golden mouldy.
ReplyDeleteHmmm that sounds sooo like you!! Oh surprise I leave things in a rickshaw and they're gone walkabout, no seriously, I feel for you ( and your wallet!) and yessss please get another camera...you só know why..... who loves ya!
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