We travelled overland on bus from Pokhara in Nepal into India. It was quite an experience. With no booking or plans other than heading to Varanasi in India, we just bought a ticket on the local bus and they threw our bags up on top and we were off to the Nepalese border. It was slow going mountainous unsealed road trip. There were a few other backpackers and some locals with there chickens. Midway we came across a landslide and the bus could not get through, we all just get out and just wait. The bus driver does not have any English so us tourist just talk through possibilities, do we just go back to Pokhara on the bus, can it reserve on these roads, are we waiting for a bull dozer to clear the road? Eventually another bus shows up on the other side of the land slide, the bus driver points, we grab our stuff walk across the damaged road jump on the other bus and we are on our way.
That afternoon we decide to stay overnight in the Nepalese border town of Sonauli and walk across the Indian border in the morning before continuing on to Varanasi.
From Varanasi we travelled by train to New Delhi
There were so many other places we visited on this trip like the Taj Mahal but unfortunately from memory a whole roll of photos didn't workout. Photography in the old days was a little different having to get things developed and you couldn't just check what you had taken. There was a lot of guess work involved especially for the young and inexperienced like me.
India was defiantly one of the more interesting place I have visited, all the people, Haggling with the rickshaw drivers and guides, being taken to some carpet shop instead of the Taj Mahal, when we haggled too low. Paid a bit more with a tip and then got treated like a King. Endless history and stories to check out, I was not that keen on all the old stuff back then but now I would love to revisit and find a lot more interesting.