Category: Lunicus

We decided to have a break and de-stress in Kanpur, and celebrate New Year’s Eve with a nice meal and big bottle of beer!! Beer and whisky though heavily regulated through government shops, seems to be readily available in most places over the counter, though in very few restaurants. Alas […]

Out of Agra, we found the cycling over the next few days hard work. The nice tarmac dual carriageway that we had been cycling on since Pakistan disappeared, replaced by a single lane road with no hard shoulder, full of potholes and angry truck and bus drivers. Roadworks of a […]

Well we have done it!! Christmas at Taj Mahal was something we had dreamed of back in England, and it was worth all the planning and hard work! Christmas morning had finally arrived…we awoke to xmas jingles from our ipod, threw back the curtains….to be greeted by the blazing sun […]

What can we say about Agra that hasn’t already been written in countless travel books, journals, and web blogs?! Well we can start by talking about the rubbish heaps and the fact that a lot of the streets smell of sewage. The city’s infrastructure is woefully inadequate, despite the flux […]

.. on the ‘road to Agra’, finally! Having braced ourselves for the crazy Delhi traffic, we were pleasantly surprised to find that our departure was probably one of the easiest of all the big cities we have cycled through! Thanks to the British colonial city planners and their wide mall […]

At last we are in the heart and capital of India proper!! Alas our Delhi experience got off to a bad start when it took us four hours to find a place to stay – most hotels that were nice and clean didn’t have facilities to store our bikes safely! […]

Our first night’s stop in India was at Amritsar – the holy city of the Sikhs and home to the famous Golden Temple. We decided to make a change from our usual daily routine, and get up early!! :p So we rose at dawn and still bleary eyed made our […]

Fully recharged after our nice long break in Lahore, we set out with our last day’s police escort, to the border town of Wagah (wagah wagah wagahhhh as Nic sang out all day). On the way we said our last goodbyes to the colorful Pakistani lorries, buses and rickshaws all […]

…as the locals say, which simply means that there is no other city equal to Lahore. As our Pakistani government guide book says “No doubt Lahore is at least equal to Delhi and Agra if not better”. 🙂 After one month’s hard cycling in the heat and dust of Pakistan, […]

We would like to thank the Sindh and Punjab police, who have looked after us throughout our entire trip through Pakistan. Thank you to the hundreds of policemen we have met for not only safeguarding our security (in person as well as on the road, by blocking other traffic), but […]