The 10,000 Steps

With christmas safely behind us and a brand new year ahead of us we're feeling optimistic about the year ahead and are definitely aclimatised to India and its bizarre ways, such as the Indian head wobble, the constant staring and the mental driving (more on this to come).

Heading north to another pilgramage site on top of yet another mountain (I guess it's closer to God), we undertook the mammouth task of plodding up 10,000 steps along with thousands of other pilgrims. The walk up at dawn was definitely awe inspiring and the views were out of this world, but you don't realise how unfit you are until you are collapsing with heat exhaustion every 10 minutes. I can still feel my muscles burning and i'm writing this about a week later.

A two day bus journey then took us to the idillic countryside village of Mandu. With it's ancient temples, forts and palaces, mixed together with tiny rural villages it made the perfect place to potter around for a few days. Like most of the rural areas we could have lingered at least a week, but India's just too big.