At 6am we both got out of bed (even though it was still dark and our train wasn't due to get in for another hour and a half) mainly as we hadn't slept at all during the night because of the cold and the chorus of snoring that echoed through our carriage.
Once up Adam spoke to another passenger who informed him that our train was over 6 hours late, so we sat in for some more hot chais and snacks whenever we could find them!
Eventually 8 hours late, we rolled into Haridwar and quickly found a bus to take us the extra hour of travel time to Rishikesh: the home of yoga, ashrams, and a much cleaner section of the Ganges river. It's in Rishikesh that the Beatles and other rock stars came in the 60s to seek spiritual enlightenment, and the same things everyone else in the 60s was looking for: peace, love, drugs and rock'n'roll.
We happened to arrived on the day the rickshaws and taxi drivers were striking and had to walk an hour to the nice part of town, where we quickly found a cheap but pretty nice place to stay!
As we had only been eating snack food and chai all day, we immediately went in search of a good curry, which we found and ate in a restaurant overlooking the river below. Not a bad first night in relaxed Rishikesh - made even better by finding butter cookies cooking over a fire in the street for dessert! mmm mmmmm
Eventually Adlibing it to Rishikesh.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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