Day 3.

Distance 300 km, driving time 6 hours.

Left Nagpur at 9 am in 39 degrees and had patches of god and very bad roads. I am planning to buy a selfie stick to hand over cash in the toll booth so I do not have to roll down the window. Checked into hotel Ashoka where we finally have internet. It is not easy to venture out of our hotel at 5.30 in the evening, since it is still 40 degrees outside. Our hotel politely offered to drive us into town, which we accepted.

Yesterday and today we noticed that everybody covers their heads with scarves and only show their eyes, at times they look like zombies and at times you feel like you are in the Gulf. Another detail we noticed today was that the more north we drove poorer the people are. Here bicycles are a common mode of transport and houses in the villages are like what Magundi village looked like 50 years back. “Wow” our villager’s are rich in Karnataka compared to the standard in Madhya Pradesh.

                         Michael  med "kølende" tørklæde - Michael with his new cooling scarf

Dag 3. 17.5

Turen i dag var fra Nagpur til Jabalpur, en kort rute i dag, ca. 300 km som tog os ca. 6 timer. Nogle steder var hovedvejen fantastisk og mange andre steder var den så ikke så god. Igen en meget varm dag. Fremme i Jabalpur kunne vi ikke lide det hotel vi havde bestilt, så fandt et bedre et. Både i dag og i går så vi at mange som kører på motorcykel eller går udenfor i varmen har et tørklæde viklet om hovedet, så man kun lige kan se øjnene, i dag fandt vi så ud af hvorfor. Vi købte et par tørklæder, og ham vi købte dem af forklarede, at vi bare skulle vride dem op i koldt vand, så køler det hovedet ned når man er udenfor i 40 graders varme.

Vi kan også se at folk at fattigere her længere nordpå, man ser mange på cykel, hvilket efterhånden er et særsyn i Bangalore og omegn.