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day 16, 16.05 hrs the rooster rickshaw pulls into the rum doodle car park in katmandhu, and they voted us the team least likely to make it?! Oh the cheek of it! And no.one got close to our 89 kph record! The boys
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day 16, just about to leave hetauda on the final stint to katmandhu over the mountains, texts not behaving, the boys
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day 13 and time to freeze our nuts off! After an hour on the road this morning we decided it best to stop and buy blankets, gloves and hats, which made the rest of the drive to darjeeling at least tolerable! Meeting alot of other teams on the road now and in hotels, so its obvious that everyone is ** some text is missing **
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day 14, up at 4 and off to tiger hill to see sunrise over the himilya, with ruth, ulric, bob, sarah and of course the 3 rickshaws, a little cloudy but still well worth the effort of the early charge. The views on the road down didn't dissapoint but not for dave who has a touch of the darjeeling feeling, pass the imodium please! We've successfully negotiated the border and are now in nepal with all very little fuss and are putting our heads down for the night at the border town of kakarbitta, mainly due to dave being desperate to get out of the back of the rickshaw! Tomoro the nepali plains and onward toward katmandhu, the boys @
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day 13 and time to freeze our nuts off! After an hour on the road this morning we decided it best to stop and buy blankets, gloves and hats, whic ** some text is missing **
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day 12 well the day started normally enough, relaxed breakfast at our 4 star hotel, traffic queued bumper to bumper for the first 5 km out of patna, but on patna's rickshaw's steel bumper strips are standard issue and so we picked up more than a couple of new scrapes in the first hour this morning! But then the real fun started when half way to purnia some idiot indian decided to get the handle bars of his motor bike inside our rickshaw and blissfully unaware of this fact we of course drove off when traffic cleared, at least one bike hit the deck behind us but we were secure in the knowledge that it was entirely his fault and so no reason to stop. However the story does not end there as the indian man in question renounted his bike and chased us for a good 10km trying to set up road blocks periodically and failing until after driving through a branch that he'd placed on the road and breaking our indicator lense we began to lose patience with him slightly and stopped, the nonsensical multilingual shouting match that ensued has been recorded for posterity and will no doubt provide much laughter for all, it ended with young irate indian being dragged away by some other locals who then told us to driv ** some text is missing **
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day 12, well the day started normally enough, relaxed breakfast at our 4 star hotel, traffic queued bumper to bumper for the first 5 km out of patna, but on patna's rickshaw's steel bumper strips are standard issue and so we picked up more than a couple of new scrapes in the first hour this morning! But then the real fun started when half way to purnia some idiot indian decided to get the handle bars of his motor bike inside our rickshaw and blissfully unaware of this fact we of course drove off when traffic cleared, at least one bike hit the deck behind us but we were secure in the knowledge that it was entirely his fault and so no reason to stop. However the story does not end there as the indian man in question renounted his bike and chased us for a good 10km trying to set up road blocks periodically and failing until after driving through a branch that he'd placed on the road and breaking our ** some text is missing **
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day 11 patna, a morning spent walking along varanasi's ghats, and being taken on a wild goose chase around the city by annoying rickshaw men! Jamie's day started badly when he was sprayed with gange 'holy' water, then stepped in dung, only to be fully splashed with the stuff halfway to patna by a passing truck, but we've told him it's all good luck and he's taken that onboard, also put the first scrape in the side of the rickshaw today whilst navigating our way through particularly tight traffic, only a scratch really, arrived in patna and after trying 2 other hotels we have tripled our previous record price on accommodation and are staying at the horrendously over priced marya patna, once its converted to pounds its cheap but we're at the stage of thinking in rupees now. Petrol tank is hanging in there despite some pretty hefty bumps today, but i don't think the exhaust is going to last till kat, definately the weak link in the rooster team, the boys
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day 11 patna, a morning spent walking along varanasi's ghats, and being taken on a wild goose chase around the city by annoying rickshaw men! Jamie's day started badly when he was sprayed with gange 'holy' water, then stepped in dung, only to be fully splashed with the stuff halfway to patna by a passing truck, but we've told him it's all good luck and he's taken that onboard, also put the first scrape in the side of the rickshaw today whilst navigating our way through particularly tight traffic, only a scratch really, arrived in patna and after trying 2 other hotels we have tripled our previous record price on accommodation and are staying at the horrendously over priced marya patna, once its converted to pounds its cheap but we're at the stage o ** some text is missing **
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day 10, left the porn statues of khajuraho early and headed for varanasi, the first 250 km were less than smooth to say the least with road surfaces varying between sand, gravel, and 50 year old tarmac, so by the time we reached smooth tarmac a few things were suffering - our backsides, our fuel tank supports, our battery terminals, some of there things we've sorted, some we've ignored, i'll let your imaginations decide which! Other notable highlights include driving past varanasi twice before eventually finding our way into some of the worst traffic encountered so far, but the navigation team did us proud and we pulled up right outside hotel pradeep at 7 o'clock after 462 km, 3364 km in total on the clock now as we reach the business end of the run, the boys
