Day 117. Sema Kui - Rishikesh
An easy day today, our destination is Rishikesh only 65km away, haha, the first 40km were all built up area, then we had about 5km of nice dual carriageway then the rest was a lovely windy road through beautiful bush and not too much traffic so the total trip was only 2.5 hours! Always something interesting to see along the way. Rishikesh is now the self styled yoga capital of the world. Every year they have a yoga festival that attracts devotees from around the world. The town itself is split in two and has parts on both sides of the Ganges river. It is very picturesque. On one side where we are there are a lot of hotels and on the other side there are many ashrams or yoga retreats. The town rises steeply from the river and the buildings are mostly perched on the sides of these ridge. Rishikesh first came to prominence to the world when the Beatles came here in the late 60’s and their time here influenced their work of the time with George Harrison playing the sitar. The as...