A day of bus rides!

A very early start, waiting for our bus to show up while we stood outside shivering. Breakfast was a delectable serving of 'wet clothes' muffins (taste was fine but they smelled of laundry), and sandwiches (tikka/paneer or egg/mayo). I can't speak of the sandwiches - after hearing the feedback I opted out - but the muffins were fairly nice. Of course, I found out they had wrappers on them only after I finished mine.

We stopped at one of the Indian pitstops that line the highways - a restaurant, service station (minus the petrol), gift and clothing store and public toilets wrapped into one bundle. It is ridiculously overpriced; in other words, we paid what we normally would in Australia for a meal and snacks, and a whole 20c to use the toilets! Rhys and I are on a quest to make ourselves bawl by ordering the spiciest food imaginable. We ventured this again at lunch, specifically requesting that we wanted to cry. Again, we were let down.

Our afternoon was spent at the Amber Fort; some of us rode elephants around, others merely enjoyed the scenery. The monkeys near the gate were particularly cheeky, stealing food and 'items' out of bins, and the elephants, although perhaps not well trained in toilet manners, are ridiculously intelligent and soft creatures.

Another long bus ride, then we finally disembarked at our destination - the nicest accomodation so far with high pressure, HOT showers, comfy beds, great food... pure heaven. We topped off the day with a good feed and the boys played a mean game of poker before bed.

But little did we know, everything was ABOUT TO CHANGE!
Not really, /blog