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We're in! Just as the last sign of natural light disappears over the horizon...7th team to finish!
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We're in! Just as the last sign of natural light disappears over the horizon...7th team to finish!
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Less than 15km to go - still some light!
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25km to go and the sun is still in the sky - on it's way down though! Rickshaw sounding more and more like a steam train...not good!
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Just taken 'welcome to goa' picture. A long way above sea level still - geronimo! Going to be pushing it for sunset - full steam ahead...
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Broken down in the middle of nowhere. Had to hitch a lift in a truck and back on a motorbike with a man who fixes exhausts with string!Bodgetastic!
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Last 100km! Rickshaw has been sounding like a sack of spanners all day but we reckon she'll make it!
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And they're off! We've had a hearty breakfast and are on the road - Goa here we come!
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We're now starting to head inland - the home straight! Just met the nicest garage owner - he's donated us a bottle of oil, plus water and sprite!
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Arrived in town to find lots of full hotels. Now best mates with two guys who found us a hotel, a restaurant and took us to crash a wedding!
Day 1 - Shillong to Nongstoin
Day 1
Finally an update! We've been in some pretty rural places for the last couple of days - after a fantastic launch (beautiful weather and no crashes or breakdowns....!) we took the mountain route out of Shillong to the west. We decided we'd seen Guwahati on the taxi driver and that some nice scenery was more our sort of thing.
Quite a few teams were out with us - we had a good little convoy of rickshaws passing each other. Unfortunately the roads were terrible as we went along - no tarmac, massive pot holes, difficult bridges and loads of dust. Then to top that off - night fall took us surprise - the sun sets very quickly, it's dark by 6pm.
We continued on to the next major town where we'd heard there was a hotel, however when we got there (lots of rickshaw runners in a rural mountain town). Just as it was looking like an uncomfortable first night the locals came to our rescue - they opened up community buildings for us, we slept in a primary school! They couldn't help us enough - thank you people of Nongstoin!