Another overnight jump. Only fourteen hours this time ! We caught an overnight train, AC class this time. This has nothing to do with AC and everything to do with keeping people, beggars, touts, salesmen etc. out. It costs three times as much but is well worth it for the peace.

So here we are in Rishikesh. Its the place where the Beatles came to do their hippie thing. More tourists going OMMMMM a lot. It’s also a Ganges sacred bathing point so loads of old men stripping off to do some ritual bathing. I wouldn’t in the river up here. What it is like further down?

There are LOTS of trekking companies here offering lots of excursions. We have paid for three nights accomodation and in this time hope we cn do some research.