Day 119. Rishikesh - Rudrapur
Today was a travel day as we make our way towards the Nepal border. We said goodbye to the lovely hotel The Narayana Palace and the super helpful and friendly staff. Naveen works in the restaurant and made sure we were well looked after. We set off quite late with no real destination in mind, our journey took us past an amazing gathering of people further down the Ganges river, clearly it was very popular but judging by the unoccupied steps to the river slightly further downstream it gets a whole lot busier. The people were gathering to bathe in the sacred waters of the Ganges. We then meandered through rural India, very small villages and TomTom played his part by taking us on the “shortest” route which meant narrow lanes and small villages. Clearly many people in these areas are living at subsistence level, sobering really. TomTom then excelled itself on two occasions, we approached larger towns and TomTom decided we should ride through very n...