Monday, July 28, 2008

Day 57 Himachal Pradesh

7:50 am. Just settled the bill for Mrs Bhandari's Guesthouse - paying for the room and a few dozen bottles of coke, fanta derivatives etc. Glad to report I had a fantastic night's sleep in air conditioned comfort. Worth every rupee: it's become very clear that we need good sleep and good food on this trip, else we get ill. And several people are pretty ill.
8:56 pm and we are somewhat short of where we should be, despite several hours' driving. But mostly this was in the wrong direction; one bridge was way too low also (it was called the Dehri Khad bridge); 30 km detour. We have stopped up at some small village and are in the process of trying to get some supper. My diet is appalling: today I have had two slices of bread; two ice creams; a Pepsi; some cheese snack puff things, and a few biscuits. Scenery changed to very green; hills and red sandstone outcrops; heavy rain started at 7 pm - making the more distant mountains misty. Not certain exactly where we are, but I think it's not far from the town of Sihunta in the Himachal Pradesh region.

1 comment:

Elisa said...

Eeew, what you're eating does sound quite disgusting. I mean, even okra almost sounds better, doesn't it? At least more nutritious? Geez!