We meet up with the rest of the group and cause the usual stir with the truck. We drive through lots of sand storms on the shortish trip (for us) to Jaipur. Most people have now started drinking rehydraton powders with some of their water, as well as drinking lots of normal water, this is vital in the heat we are encountering to stop dehydration. Everyone appears to have recovered from their various ailments, even those of us who were bitten by gnats at the las...

We have arrived in the mad city of Delhi, we have booked our own hotel as we wanted to ensure we had an air conditioned room and trusted restaurant. What a mad place this is and very hot. You cannot move for being stopped by rickshaw, taxi and tuk tuk drivers, so we duck our heads and walk to our hotel. We are greeted with a cool calm hotel with even a bell hop to run the lift. In the evening we venture out after having had a very nice curry, and wander the back ...

We have traveled up to Mcleod Ganj an old summer hill station near the Himalayas. It is also next to Dharamasala the home to the Dali Llamas exiled government to Tibet. This place is on the old hippy trail, but I have to say the place is mad, it is noisy, dirty and dangerous, all because it is a tiny place with taxis and motorcycles driving all over the place sounding their horns and taking no account of peoples safety. (I was hit several tomes by them).We saw ou...

After a short wait for the electricity to start, the Pakistan authorities allowed us to leave their country! We enter India through the border at Wagarah. The authorities made a dogs dinner of booking us all in, once we were told all was well, another Official decides we have to take all the bags of the truck and put them through the scanner, which was not even on, for most of the bags?? We also met up with some of those who could not go through Pakistan and the ...